Re: [ProgSoc] Changing X server colour depth on the fly?

[tony@nospam.cybersorceress.com.au]

On  6 Apr, jedd wrote:
> On Thu,  5 Apr 2001 00:08, myke@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au wrote:
>  ] A bit of background to my problem: Certain applications (X clients) that I 
>  ] use will only run if the colour depth is 8bpp (256 colours). Normally my X 
>  ] server is running at 16bpp (or higher). In order for me to change the
>  . . [snip] . .
>  ] Is there a way to fool the client to think the server is running with a
>  ] reduced colour depth? (Just a thought).
> 
>  One way around this (I haven't tried it, but believe it would work well)
>  is to use your normal 16+bpp xserver for your normal stuff, and create
>  an xserver within an xserver for this application(s) that requires 8bpp.
>  I think there's an app that's designed to do exactly this, but I forget the
>  name - it's probably xinx or something. :)  The other, possibly neater

I believe it's called xnest. Likewise I haven't played with it. But I believe
it would do the job.

>  Jedd.
> 


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