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diff --git a/help/rest/X11.txt b/help/rest/X11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7653c07 --- /dev/null +++ b/help/rest/X11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +.. _X11: + +.. index:: + pair: driver; X11 + pair: platform; Unix + +X11 driver +========== + +This was the first driver done for XaoS. It supports many visuals, shared +colormaps and MitSHM extension. + +Bugs/limitations: + +XaoS makes some X servers too busy + + Sometimes XaoS generates images faster than X can display them. In this + case XaoS responds poorly to the mouse, and other applications slow down + too. This happens especially often on old R4 servers. Use -sync to avoid + this problem. Note that -sync does not make all communication with X + asynchronous; it just adds one additional XSync call. So the slowdown is + not as large as you might expect. + +Does not work on all visuals + + This driver supports only 8bpp pseudocolor/grayscales, 15,16,24 and 32bpp + truecolor, 1bpp and 8bpp staticolor visuals. + +Palette rotating does not work for 8bpp pseudocolor w/o private palette + +X11 driver was written by Jan Hubicka and Thomas Marsh, 1997. |