[Rd] X11(colortype="true") does not give a truecolor visual (PR#1388)

[Thomas Lumley]

On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 Edwin@balpol.tudelft.nl wrote:
>
>
> > The system in question (like many UNIX workstations) has both Pseudo and
> > truecolor visual types available, however the default type points to an 8 plane
> > PseudoColor visual.
>
> I believe that is unusual.  Sun Xservers allow you to set the default
> visual on the command line: has the default been overridden?  Ours with
> multiple visuals are selecting TrueColor, but it does say the default is
> hardware-dependent.
>

As another data point: The Sun workstation that I had a couple of years
ago had this setup as well, and I'm fairly sure that the defaults hadn't
been overridden, but I seem to remember that I raised this issue back then
and no-one else reported a similar problem.

	-thomas

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