I still have to try the xephyr command sequence you prop but I just permit to dubt about your "hardware dependency sophistication" as I find that a device retro compatibity to gray scale is usually certain, then if it is a software driver limitiation could be an other pair of shoes.. Sorry to underline this maybe useless point to a solution.
dan Feb 20, 2026 22:49:13 Crystal Kolipe <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 09:35:33PM +0100, Noth wrote: >> Yes we had someone on IRC a while back (like at least 5 years ago) who was >> complaining of this, grayscale doesn't work anymore in xenocara, and that >> may be the case in regular Xorg too. I guess we have zero users who use this >> mode? > > It certainly does work. But it depends on the underlying graphics driver. > > $ Xephyr :1 -grayscale & > $ xterm -bg black -fg green -display :1
