[rescue] cgsix question

[Dave McGuire]

On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 01:39 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> The ZX has a number of interesting features.  First, it's overlay plane
> allows both 24bit and 8bit graphics simultaneously, so you can run the
> GIMP in 24bit, but Mozilla in only 8 bit, and doom in 8 bit, and yet
> have no color flashing from conflicting palletes.  Well, in theory you
> can do that.  I'm not sure how you force a program to not auto-detect
> that the Xserver is 24bit capable so that it runs in 8bit mode.

   If memory serves, an X application can query the X server for the 
visuals it supports, and look through them to see how it wants to 
run...then there's another call to actually tell the X server what 
visual to use to display that client's stuff.

       -Dave

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