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PC X server visuals
- To: Andreas Bischoff <bischoff at ise dot com>
- Subject: PC X server visuals
- From: John E Hein <john at ERA dot COM>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 17:15:16 -0400
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <199706271806.LAA01892@ws4.ise.com>
Andreas Bischoff wrote at 11:06 -0700 on Jun 27:
> Hi all,
>
> not a directly gnuwin32 question but since the members
> of this list are very always very helpful:
>
> We've ported already a couple of programs to NT using
> Sergey's libX11.a
>
> I'm having trouble finding a good X server.
>
> Some of the server I've tried, don't display the colors right.
>
> As I understand it so far, the following happens:
>
> I'm running a Matrox Millenium in 24bit mode.
>
> The X servers I tried so far seem to have trouble providing
> different visuals in this environment:
>
> - demo from DEC: only 256bit PseudoColor
> - Reflection from WRQ: only 24 bit TrueColor
> - Netmanage (packaged with OpenNT): only 24bit TrueColor
> - XWin32: PseudoColor and TrueColor, but slow and no backing store
We use XWin32 (ver 3.4.0) from Starnet, and it works well. I also tried the
free X Server from Microimages (MI/X), and one other that I can't remember
that was pretty bad. My only complaint about XWin32 is that it doesn't
support user-specific configurations.
It does support backing store, btw. And I have noticed no performance
problems.
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