> I am missing the boat on setting the privateColors to true. Should I
> not see 24 bit images?
The privateColors property only applies to palette-based displays
(usually this means 8-bit/256-color pseudoColor visuals on X11
systems). 16 and 24/32 bit displays all use "direct" color modes,
where the pixel value is calculated directly using the RGB values
rather than allocated out of a palette/colormap. It works this way on
X11 systems, as well as on Windows and Mac systems.
> My SGI is 24 bit but within MetaCard I only get 8 bit. Grrr..., please
> tell me how I can get my stacks to display 24 bit from the time it boots
> to the time I log off.
The problem is that your default visual is an 8-bit visual. There are
two ways to override this. First, you can specify a different visual
on the MetaCard command line (e.g., "mc -v 0x22", you can get the
visual number using the X11 program "xdpyinfo"). Or, you can change
the default visual for your system.
> Please provide a sample script for my feable mind.
This problem really doesn't have anything to do with MetaCard: It's a
function of the X server (or the settings in the "Display" or
"Monitors" control panel on Windows and Mac systems, respectively).
On SGIs, this info is kept in the configuration file
/usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers, and you can get more info about the
command-line options with "man Xsgi".
Regards,
Scott
> Thanx,
> Simon
>
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