[16164] in Athena Bugs
Re: 24 bpp X servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Aug 14 16:19:09 1998
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 16:19:04 -0400 (EDT)
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[16163] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
| I was thinking of maybe trying to write a proxy X server which passed
| through everything but munged the default visual ID, so that we could
| run 24-bit servers and still have this hack as a workaround for
| applications which broke. Craig thought that might be difficult,
| though.
I think you'd be a lot more successful with an LD_PRELOAD module
or a replacment shared library that altered the default visual
requested by applications that didn't specify one.
This should be a lot higher performance than a proxy X server, too.
--jhawk
