3 Nov
2012
3 Nov
'12
1:56 p.m.
What non-IRIX X-servers have people been able to get to work with IRIX? I'm not
talking about the DGL problems
(where older IRIS-GL programs don't work right with non-IRIX X-servers excluding the
IRISVISION because of the
absence of Distributed GL), but I'm getting artifacts (Mac OS X 10.4 X11 [incomplete
menus], Solaris 10 [boxes]) or,
more annoyingly, random X resets (Linux and other X.org derived stuff). This is recent
IRIX on the client (6.5.22 and .30).
3 Nov
3 Nov
5:09 p.m.
In article <8CF881CE5F151B1-BD0-833B at webmail-d073.sysops.aol.com>,
Scott Quinn <saquinn624 at aol.com> writes:
What non-IRIX X-servers have people been able to get
to work with IRIX?
Do you mean the client is running on IRIX and the server is on another
machine?
I don't see any reason why any X client on one machine wouldn't
display properly on another machine, so long as the X client wasn't
assuming the presence of extensions and was properly respecting the
Visual of the target display.
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8:49 p.m.
> What non-IRIX X-servers have people been able to
get to work with
> IRIX?
I can't speak directly to this; it's been at elast a decade since I
touched IRIX. But...
I don't see any reason why any X client on one
machine wouldn't
display properly on another machine, so long as the X client wasn't
assuming the presence of extensions and was properly respecting the
Visual of the target display.
...I'm afraid your "so long as" is rather optimistic, at least if you
think it's true of "modern" (whatever _that_ means) clients. When I
was working with Android a year or two ago I saw a simulator which
displayed with red and blue swapped - it was blindly assuming it knew
what the TrueColor masks were! (I'm not sure I ever knew what it did
if pointed at a display with no TrueColor visual; I didn't have one
handy - I had 8bpp hardware handy, but the server presented a 3/3/2
TrueColor visual. I forget what it did when pointed at that display.)
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