On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 11:31:22 at 11:31:22AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> It sounds like FrameMaker was designed for Solaris where the X server is always
> running in 24bit mode. Simply having someone change the X setup on your
> machine so it ran in 24 instead of 16bpp mode would have fixed this.
Yes, I've been told on other lists too that that is the actual
problem, and the 24bpp setting the real solution.
As already mentioned (I guess) I just needed something to tide me over
until the company helpdesk realizes what an X server is and comes to
my desk to digit the root password so I can rerun Xconfigurator
myself....
>
> An X developer must support each color depth on their own or via the toolkit.
> Applications which handle graphics often took this time on only bit depth
> because of the work involved. Raster's imlib that E uses has a substantial
> chunk of code which internally maps everything to 24 bit then renders it out in
> the actual bit depth of the server.
Thanks for the explanation!
Ciao,
Marco Fioretti
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