L.S.
in a project I run I am stuck with an application that
only wants to run on an 8-bit pseudocolor visual, and
is extremely intolerant to fellow clients. The displays
I use are all xfree with nice 24-bit capabilities, and
I hate to have the whole display run in a degraded mode,
just for this application, even though it is the most important
one for my customer, just because the Xfree server can only
support 1 visual at a time.
for the mid-term I was thinking of a solution in terms of adapting
Xnest, so that the application can run in its own private xserver.
At the moment though, Xnest just 'inherits' a visual of its server.
I have only some general knowledge about the X protocol and the Xfree
architecture, but it seems to me that it shouldn't be too hard to
make Xnest simulate 8 or 16 bit visuals when it can use a 24 bit
visual itself.
Opinions on whether this is a good idea, possible alternatives,
and hints on where to get started with references to the code
would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Luuk van Dijk
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