Hi James, Your reply was very informative, and I appreciate it very much.
Because I need to access the localhost:0 desktop, I may have to anxiously wait for your next release of Enterprise Edition before purchase. But, before I resign myself to that, I'm definitely going to find out whether TrueColor is available on this machine. Many thanks! Cheers, Nicholas Hung -----Original Message----- From: James Weatherall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:07 AM To: Hung, Nicholas; [email protected] Subject: RE: RealVNC and Pseudocolor Hi Nicholas, Please submit support requests or trial feedback via http://www.realvnc.com/support.html to ensure a timely response. This sounds like a recently-discovered issue with the GUI toolkit used by x0vncserver, vncconfig & vncviewer in VNC Enterprise Edition E4.3.x releases. The toolkit in question is optimised for TrueColor displays, and deals with PseudoColor ones by allocating a TrueColor-like palette. Depending upon your requirements, you may prefer to: 1. Run your applications using vncserver/Xvnc, in a virtual X server. This will allow you to use more colours than your server computer's console X server can support. VNC will downgrade the colour level automatically if you need to display the server's contents on the limited display hardware. 2. Wait for the next VNC Enterprise Edition release, which will provide an -owncmap option, allowing x0vncserver to be run with its GUI's palette allocated independently of the default one. It may also be possible, depending upon your graphics hardware, to configure the HP-UX system's console to use TrueColor by default. HP-UX PA-RISC systems usually have a bi-modal framebuffer, capable of both 32-bit TrueColor and 8-bit PseudoColor simultaneously. Since x0vncserver always deals with the default visual, setting the default to the 32-bit format will improve its behaviour. Cheers, -- Wez @ RealVNC Ltd > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hung, Nicholas > Sent: 09 January 2008 14:54 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RealVNC and Pseudocolor > > Hi there, and thanks for taking a look at my issue: > > My RealVNC 4.3.1 trial-licensed server is running on a remote > PA-RISC-based HP9000 HP-UX 11.11i machine. It supports a > palette of up to 256 colors, i.e. in Pseudocolor mode. I've > been unable to start my X-server with more colors using > "startx -- -bpp 16" so I suspect my server-side hardware does > not support modes higher than Pseudocolor. > > My problem is that when x0vncserver is running with MWM and > HPTERM, all but five of my 256 colors are used. When I start > other X-based programs, I quickly hit the 256-color limit, > and colors begin to be approximated with widely-varying > success (read: often very strange colors are used in place of > normal ones). > > I have two questions: > > -- Why does VNC use so many colors in the palette? (It uses > over half of 256 total colors, comparing how much is used > before and after I start > VNC.) > > -- And most importantly, can I configure it to use > significantly fewer colors on my server's palette? > > Thanks in advance for your time and help! > > Sincerely, > > Nicholas Hung > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [email protected] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
