dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal) (11/12/88)
> > A while back there was some discussion about making color screens have > multiple visuals. Currently, the SUN CG4 has two screens. One is > monochrome, and the other is color. But under the "multiple visuals" > plan, it would only have one screen and two visuals, a monochrome and > an 8 plane pseudo-color. This is correct. It should have been done during X11's Beta - I wrote much of the code but never got time to finish it. > Of course, this requires application writers > to finally figure out how to find the right visuals. > A paper by David Lemke and myself on this topic has been accepted for the San Diego Usenix. The fact that the problem is interesting enough to get a Usenix paper out of should tell you something :-< > Are there any plans to implement multiple visuals anywhere? > Many X servers will have multiple visuals. Some (including the X/NeWS server on color displays) already do. Many, maybe most, color X applications I have seen do not work correctly in these environments. This was the observation that led David and I to write the paper. David.
tek@CS.UCLA.EDU (11/12/88)
A while back there was some discussion about making color screens have multiple visuals. Currently, the SUN CG4 has two screens. One is monochrome, and the other is color. But under the "multiple visuals" plan, it would only have one screen and two visuals, a monochrome and an 8 plane pseudo-color. Of course, this requires application writers to finally figure out how to find the right visuals. Are there any plans to implement multiple visuals anywhere? &ted ARPAnet: tek@penzance.cs.ucla.edu UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucla-cs!tek
jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) (11/15/88)
> Are there any plans to implement multiple visuals anywhere?
It is on our wish list.
Jim Fulton
MIT X Consortium