On 5 Nov 2002, Xavier Bestel wrote: > I don't want to be a jackass, but why isn't it dynamically settable ? I > mean, each day we discover that config-file options are a pain, because > they prevent dynamic reconfiguration which is a must for a modern > desktop.
The X model allows clients to assume that some properties of the server don't change. There is no standard way to tell a client that it can no longer have the colormap it has been using. We could invent an extension to tell the client, but that doesn't help clients which aren't rewritten to listen to this extension. That isn't to say it isn't worth trying to think of a way of doing it, but there are already two solutions: 1 use a new color map - drawback color-map flashing 2 use a 15/16/24/... bit display I'm not sure that dynamic config for 8bit displays is a good use of developer resources. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
