vncserver on Fedora 9 cannot create 8 bit TrueColor session

[Ashish Yadav]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:22 PM, James Weatherall <jnw "at" realvnc.com> wrote:
> Hi Ashish,
>
> Yes, it will - BGR233 can't express greys, since it has uneven numbers of
> bits for each colour component.
>
However vncserver on AIX shows colors quite fine, even in a 8 bit
TrueColor session.

> Why do you want to use 8-bit TrueColor anyway?  I'm actually a little
> surprised that any modern X applications even work with that format.
>

There are still, I came to use VNC because of Cairo library. Here's the thread:

http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2008-July/014575.htm


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Regards,

Ashish

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