[Xlibs] A hack for flashplayer

[Christopher Blizzard]

Christopher Blizzard wrote:

> Keith Packard wrote:
>
>> I've discovered that flash player gets confused when it sees a depth 
>> 32 visual available from the server.  I'm sure this is a bug in that 
>> code, but there's not exactly a lot we can do about it.
>>
>> I hacked Xlib to ignore depth 32 visuals when an environment variable
>> (XLIB_ IGNORE_ARGB32) is set so that I can run mozilla and still see the
>> fine flash content available on the net.
>>
>> I'm hoping this won't be a problem for many applications; it's a bit 
>> hard to understand why flash had this problem (it seems weird to 
>> happen upon a non-default visual and use it's depth when creating 
>> images, but not use it for creating windows).
>>
>> -keith
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> Yeah, but this means that Mozilla can't see the depth 32 visual, 
> either?  Also, are you sure that that isn't a bug in the Mozilla 
> code?  We open a new X connection for the flash player - it's very 
> possible that we pick the wrong defaults and pass them off to the
>
>
...plugin.

--Chris

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