From: john AT ERA DOT COM (John E Hein) Subject: PC X server visuals 27 Jun 1997 15:55:38 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199706272115.RAA16166.cygnus.gnu-win32@lorax.ERA.COM> References: <199706271806 DOT LAA01892 AT ws4 DOT ise DOT com> Original-To: Andreas Bischoff Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <199706271806.LAA01892@ws4.ise.com> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com 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. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".