Re: Remote sessions with HP UX CDE ?

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Mr. Fox,

What limitation are you speaking of?  I wrote the 8bpp code, so I can 
assure you that there is no such limitation.  Perhaps you were saying 
that Cygwin/XFree86 cannot connect to HP UX's CDE when running in 8bpp 
--- I would certainly believe that, but I have not heard that from other 
users yet.

If you haven't tried 8bpp in awhile, try it.  It has worked fine for 
months now.  The only remaining problem is that we cannot support 8bpp 
visuals when the root visual is >8bpp; for example, we can't allow you 
to run your desktop in 16bpp and still display a given CAD program on an 
8bpp visual (seems CAD programs love to use 8bpp).  Other than that we 
are pretty much feature complete in the 8bpp department.

Harold

Papa Fox wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Cygwin XFree has a limitation - it doesn't work with 8bpp screens.  You 
> need to change your screen settings to at least 16bpp.
>
> To change you color depth:
>
> Right click on the desktop, select 'Properties'; select the 'Settings' 
> tab; change the 'Color Quality' setting to either 'High (24 bits)' or 
> 'Highest (32 bits)'.  Warning: check that selecting a higher color depth 
> doesn't cause Windows to reduce you screen resolution.  Check that the 
> 'Screen Resolution' value has not changed.  Click OK.
>
> regards
> Papa Fox
>
>
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