>> Does anyone know what the warning message mean when I ran an
>> application with in the VNC desktop.  I tried to start the VNC server
>> in 8, 16 and 24, I still got the warning.
>>
>>     *WARNING: Atr: Failed to find 8-plane PseudoColor visual
>>
>> My Desktop color depth is set to 24 on my Ultra10 with Solaris8.
>>
>> Any suggestion would be a great help.
>
>This sounds similar to the problem I came to the list with recently.
>The answer seemed to be that vncviewer can't display on an X server
>that's 24-bpp when it isn't padded to 32-bpp;  a bit puny if you ask me
>but I haven't the tuits to do anything about it.

No, this is a separate issue.  I think that an application which is
attempting to run on Xvnc is demanding a PseudoColour visual, which Xvnc
can only provide if explicitly told to.  Try adding "-depth 8 -cc 3" to the
vncserver command line.

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