Hi,
I'm getting desperate on Sun Ray's "color mask problem" :-(
Since there are not many posts about this, I wonder if I'm the only one
struggling with that.
What I'm referring to is the "non-standard" color mask Sun Ray's X
Server is using
red, green, blue masks: 0xff, 0xff00, 0xff0000
instead of the the much more common
red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
(see xpdyinfo)
At least on Linux this results in all kinds of ugliness with some
applications (switched colors with red/blue):
* Flash Player:
In some 9er version they fixed the hard coded color mask values and used
the actual values served by the X server. Unfortunately, this particular
version had troubles with sound. The more recent version 10.x fixed the
sound problems but reintroduced the color mask bug (see
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-mozillateam-bugs/2008-June/047032.html).
As this isn't fixed for over a year now, I've not much hope to get
relief anytime soon.
* QT4:
<sidenote>
With any newer windows manager/graphics library (KDE4/QT4, Gnome/GTK)
the response of the desktop becomes increasingly slower and "visually
impacted", simply because the graphics systems offloads more and more
work to the hardware - which doesn't really suit sun ray environments.
With KDE4/QT4.x this entered a new dimension, because now the desktop
becomes absolutely unusable, because it relies on XServer extensions,
which Xnewt doesn't support.
</sidenote>
Encouraged by some hints to recompile QT4 with the
"graphicssystems=raster" option, I had hope to at least fix the visual
problems, but guess what - there is was again - the "color mask"
problem. Just like Adobe, Trolltech has hardcoded the color mask values
all over the QT4 code :-( finally making all the efforts useless.
As I see not much conversation around this issue, I would be interested
in the following:
* Is this somehow a personal problem with my installation on Linux
(Ubuntu 9.04), or are there others suffering the same problems?
* Are there known workarounds for the Flash and/or QT4 problems?
* Is there any chance to teach the Xnewt to use the "common" color
masks?, avoiding all those problems?
* Are there any best practices to tweak a recent KDE or Gnome Desktop to
have a maybe simpler but faster (!) graphics system on sun ray.
Any response appreciated,
Joerg
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