Mark, > Now 4.2.0, last week I'm not sure. I just redid my whole windows > partition > and so I have the latest Cygwin/XFree. > > I just tried it in non full screen mode with Windows in 16 bit > color and it > failed. Is this what you felt shouldn't happen anymore? Or just that I > shouldn't have to run it full screen?
Well, Windows doesn't allow each program to run at a different bit depth, so if you want Cygwin/XFree86 to run in 8 bit color in windowed mode, you have to run Windows in 8 bit color. The -depth 8 parameter only applies when -fullscreen is used because we can change the bit depth for the screen when we are running in a DirectDraw-based fullscreen mode. Does that make sense? So it makes perfect sense that your 8 bit application would fail when running Cygwin/XFree86 in windowed mode with Windows in 16 bit color. What I was saying is that if you run Windows in 8 bit color, then Cygwin/XFree86 4.2.0 should work just fine with your 8 bit color applications. So, please run Windows in 8 bit color and let me know what happens. Harold
