From: john AT ERA DOT COM (John E Hein)
Subject: PC X server visuals
27 Jun 1997 15:55:38 -0700
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Original-To: Andreas Bischoff <bischoff AT ise DOT com>
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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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