re bit static color will clients like it in article apr vxcrna cern ch roeber vxcrna cern ch frederick roeber writes i m writing an x server for some video generation equipment the hardware is truecolor in yuv space in x terms it has a bit static color visual i would really like to have the server just present this static visual but i m not sure if this will be acceptable to most x clients the three problems i see are the colormap though huge is static all pixels would be bytes wide because the hardware actually lives in yuv space the translation rgb yuv will introduce some rounding error being more of a server guy than a client guy i ask will these limitations thwart many x clients or will most of the x stuff floating around blithely accept what they re given i could write the server to also present a pseudocolor visual of e g bits but i d rather avoid this if not necessary even bit truecolor machines are in most cases running an emulated bit pseudocolor visual only to get standard x clients motif apps and thelike to run i strongly suppose you to emulate at least bit truecolor should be no problem only some translation rounding should not make big misfits bit pseudocolor more of a problem you have to emulate a colormap pixel indices conversion stuff furthermore you should run your default screen on this visual o o o brain inside o o o o andre beck abpsoft mehl andre beck irs inf tu dresden de o o o
