colormaps, visuals

[Tristan Richardson]

Brian Craft <bcboy "at" thecraftstudio.com> writes:

> hi all -- Just tried VNC, running the server on a linux box, the viewer on a
> win95 box. The laptop is in 16bpp "high color" mode, whatever that is.  I
> started the server in 16bpp mode. Most apps look fine, however ee has some sort
> of colormap problem. All the images it displays have messed up color.
> 
> Oddly, the gimp is fine, though the two programs are using the same widget set
> & the same version of gdk, which I would expect to pick the same visual each
> time.
> 
> Anyone know what could cause this?
> 

Try adding "-pixelformat rgb565" when you start the server.  The default 16-bit
pixel format on Xvnc differs from the one used by most linux X servers.  It's
possible that some applications don't handle it properly.

Hope this helps

Cheers

Tristan

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