On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mellertson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Have you tried running it in xnest with the color depth set to 8 bit?
On 09/12/2011 05:00 PM, Doug Kuvaas wrote:
> I have been trying to use Xephyr for running an old legacy
> application that doesn't function properly at color depths greater
> than 8 bit. I have been exploring this as a possible alternative to
> running X in 8-bit color mode, primarily because X does not seem to
> work properly in 8 bit color mode anymore. I get a grayscale
> display instead of 8-bit color. Xephyr seems to work perfectly for
> what I want to do, with the exception of the backing store. I am
> running Xephyr with the options +bs -wm, however when I open a menu
> on the legacy application or move some other screen object, the
> screen behind it ends up either staying black or certain elements
> going missing until I do something that causes the entire display to
> be re-drawn. While re-writing the portions of the application that
> don't play nice with color depths beyond 8 bits, I would like to
> get this working without requiring updating our software if possible
> as we have many different locations using their own customized
> versions.
>
> I have verified that the backing store option does work for Xorg,
> both if I run Fedora normally, that is load Gnome and use that as a
> display manager, and if I just start Xorg manually with no display
> managers.
>
> Any insights or help on getting this working would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Doug K
>
Mikkel
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