vncserver on Fedora 9 cannot create 8 bit TrueColor session

[James Weatherall]

Hi Ashish,

I'm afraid that the Cairo link you refer to is missing an "l", and doesn't
seem to refer to a "thread" but to a copy of your request to the Cairo
mailing list requesting help getting 8-bit TrueColor working.

Can you explain why you want 8-bit TrueColor rather than a higher bpp
TrueColor mode, or than 8-bit PseudoColor?

Regards,

--
Wez @ RealVNC Ltd


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Ashish Yadav
> Sent: 26 July 2008 05:35
> To: James Weatherall; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Re: vncserver on Fedora 9 cannot create 8 bit 
> TrueColor session
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> --
> Regards,
> 
> Ashish
> 
> "There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary, 
> and those who don't"
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