Re: Problem with 16 bit colours?

[Paul Barnfather <plb clanger9 demon co uk>]

Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> 
> >  When I use GNOME on a 16 bit display, the colours of the desktop
> >  icons, menu icons and Sawmill window decorations are all screwed up.
> >  Pictures are displayed wrong in Electric Eyes, too.
> >
> >  But the panel icons, images displayed in Gimp, and all other X
> >  applications I've tried work correctly (like StarOffice).
> [snip]
> 
> Ugh.  Can you please provide us with the output of `xdpyinfo'?
> 
>   Federico
> 

Interestingly, I tried a 24 bit display, and it's fine! There are
rumours of 16-bit colour issues with VNC (basically XFee86) on Solaris.
Anyone know more?

Still, it seems odd that gdk-pixbuf is fine, but imlib isn't.
Here's xdpyinfo in 16 bit:

name of display:    continuity.straylight:98.0
version number:    11.0
vendor string:    AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
vendor release number:    3330
maximum request size:  4194300 bytes
motion buffer size:  256
bitmap unit, bit order, padding:    32, MSBFirst, 32
image byte order:    MSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats:    2
supported pixmap formats:
    depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
    depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
keycode range:    minimum 8, maximum 255
focus:  window 0x3c00006, revert to Parent
number of extensions:    7
    BIG-REQUESTS
    MIT-SHM
    MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
    SHAPE
    SYNC
    XC-MISC
    XTEST
default screen number:    0
number of screens:    1

screen #0:
  dimensions:    800x600 pixels (271x203 millimeters)
  resolution:    75x75 dots per inch
  depths (1):    16
  root window id:    0x25
  depth of root window:    16 planes
  number of colormaps:    minimum 1, maximum 1
  default colormap:    0x21
  default number of colormap cells:    64
  preallocated pixels:    black 0, white 65535
  options:    backing-store YES, save-unders YES
  largest cursor:    800x600
  current input event mask:    0x5a20bd
    KeyPressMask             ButtonPressMask         
ButtonReleaseMask        
    EnterWindowMask          LeaveWindowMask         
PointerMotionHintMask    
    ButtonMotionMask         StructureNotifyMask     
SubstructureNotifyMask   
    SubstructureRedirectMask PropertyChangeMask       
  number of visuals:    1
  default visual id:  0x22
  visual:
    visual id:    0x22
    class:    TrueColor
    depth:    16 planes
    available colormap entries:    64 per subfield
    red, green, blue masks:    0x3f, 0x7c0, 0xf800
    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits

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