[rescue] cgsix question

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 02:14:01PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I believe you are correct.  But that doesn't mean that GTK or QT
applications that many of us use will deal with this in the way we want
them to.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd