[16170] in Athena Bugs
Re: 24 bpp X servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat Aug 15 06:06:26 1998
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 06:06:22 -0400
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[16164] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
| 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.
I started on this (~jhawk/tmp/xstub.c) but had difficulty finding
applications that broke under 24 bit color. Since I was using a Sun
as a development environment, I couldn't use "ewb". The only one I could
find was /usr/openwin/demo/realxfishdb, but it seems that does funky things
withe root window. Either my method doesn't work because of that special
stuff it does, or it doesn't work at all :-) I'm not sure which.
Finding a real Solaris test case would be cool.
--jhawk
