[RFC] DeepColor Visual Class Extension

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Thu Jul 27 18:27:42 UTC 2017


Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> writes:

> You can't prevent that, but I wouldn't worry -- it's been a long time
> since common clients went looking for a non-default Visual as the
> default is 24-bits RGB, which is about as good as you can get.

And a day later, I ran 'lxterminal', which goes and gets a 32-bit ARGB
visual for no good reason...

I think that's probably still OK -- if you offer 2 core-identical 24-bit
RGB visuals, and the first one is 'normal', then a linear search will
reliably avoid the deep one.

-- 
-keith
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