[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] running af at 24-bit depth

[From: Tommi Komulainen]

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 16:00 +0300, ext Timo Savola wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 15:15 +0300, Aleksandr Koltsoff wrote:
> 
> > The component that provides images to applications (sapwood-server), has a 
> > hardcoded value in it that is set to 16. Since the process runs without a 
> > Gdk-context, it's not easy to detect the depth directly (I'm guessing here 
> > though).
> > 
> > I've modified the server so that the depth can be controlled via an 
> > environmental variable called SAPWOOD_DEPTH and if it's set to 24, then 
> > sapwood will use that.
> 
> Let the arms race begin...
> 
> Here's another quick+dirty hack.  It gets the depth from the X display
> so you don't have to specify it manually.  I've included the patch.

Thanks for the effort but both are rather ugly hacks.  sapwood-server
already has an X connection so it could just use GDK to query the depth
of the root window.

Of course this is not an issue on the target device and I *thought* we
managed to bury this issue by introducing Xephyr (I'm running in 16bit
so I didn't initially notice it either.)  It's a pretty straightforward
fix, I'm just not sure when I get around to fix that as it's not exactly
critical :-/

You might want to use Xephyr anyway as it has nice redrawing debugging
support; just killall -USR1 Xephyr and you'll see which regions are
being redrawn.


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Tommi Komulainen                            <tommi.komulainen at nokia.com>