On 2/1/06, Mark Wedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brendan Lally wrote: > actually, I don't think there is anything specific about using 16 colors. I > think it was just that 16 colors were used - it could very well be 12 or 25 - > as > far as X is concerned, it doesn't care (unless someone only had 4 bit color, > but > I don't know if such hardware ever existed).
ega cards on (very) old IBM PCs support only 16 displayable colours, I don't know if they can run X though. - in any case their resolution probably wouldn't be enough to show the entire screen. > Private colormap is a leftover from 8 bit display - most 8 bit hardware > could > only display 256 different colors at a time, but out of the palette of 16 > million (24 bit color). So one would use colormaps to determine what colors > of > the palette your are drawing. Is that why I have seen colours shift with application focus on very old sparc systems running X? _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
