27 Jul
2010
27 Jul
'10
9:33 p.m.
On 7/27/10 5:27 PM, Rob Jarratt wrote:
I am using Exceed to run an X server on my PC. I would
like it to show a
colour logo like in this screenshot: :
http://toastytech.com/guis/DWlogin.gif but all I get is monochrome on the
login screen. A friend has suggested that you only get colour on real
workstations. Does anyone know how to get the colour login on Exceed?
I don't know anything about Exceed so I can't answer your specific
question, but your friend doesn't know jack squat about X. ;) X doesn't
"know" whether it's on a "real workstation" (whatever that is!) or
not.
I've run dozens upon dozens of color X terminals.
X clients (programs that interact with the user) connect to X servers
(that control keyboards/mice/video hardware) over TCP connections,
DECnet connections, or local sockets. The stuff on each end is fully
abstracted and has no idea of how the actual protocol data is getting
from place to place. The only time this changes that
I'm aware of is
when the SHM (SHared Memory) extension is present and in use.
With SHM,
clients can pass "big" data (images and such) to the X server in a much
faster way.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL