nanogui: X11 driver palette bug
Subject:
Re: X11 driver palette bug
From:
George Harvey ####@####.####
Date:
15 Jun 2000 21:49:56 -0000
Message-Id: <yam8201.2900.139376992@smtp.dial.pipex.com>
On 14-Jun-00, Greg Haerr wrote:
>: >I'm pretty sure that the VNC client doesn't work for
>: >other than 8bpp. I mean VNC 8bpp, not Nano-X. So
>: >you can still get the VNC 24bpp working on your palettized
>: >device, Microwindows will convert the colors for you. However,
>: >there's still some work to be done in the VNC client.
>:
>: OK, I'd be interested in knowing what combinations do or
>: don't work. It may be something simple like I am not picking
>: up the right nano-X parameter to set the VNC screen mode.
[ snip palette issues ]
I'll have to think about the colour handling some more, I'll
have another look at what VNC is trying to do and come back
with any questions.
>There are some other minor enhancements, like adding
>the client capability to scroll or offset to different server
>screen regions, that I would also like to add. I will
>add some Nano-X viewport functions to help with this.
Scrolling is the next thing I was going to work on, I haven't
looked at it at all yet. Does your mention of viewports mean
that scrolling is not possible with the current nano-X ?
>The VNC
>: documentation says that any 3.3.x viewer should work with any
>: 3.3.x server so compatibility is not a problem.
>Then why were people saying that it didn't work with the latest
>version of VNC??
I just updated my servers to 3.3.3r1 and my 3.3.2 clients still
work fine. Which version/platform combinations don't work?
Regards,
George
