second X server?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

No.. Actually, it was the Citrix ICAClient which I used to run off a
Solaris box through an ssh tunnel.  It just completely failed to run
if I had more than 8-bit color.  This was before the Citrix ICAClient
for Linux was released, which doesn't have this mis-feature. :)

-derek

Derek Martin <ddm at cerberus.ne.mediaone.net> writes:

> Today, Derek Atkins gleaned this insight:
> 
> > want the '-bpp 8', unless you want to force 256-bit color (I needed to
> > do so for a particular client, which has since been fixed).
> 
> Wouldn't happen to have been HP OpenView/Omniback would it?  :)
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> You know that everytime I try to go where I really want to be,
> It's already where I am, cuz I'm already there...
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Derek D. Martin              |  Unix/Linux Geek
> ddm at MissionCriticalLinux.com |  derek at cerberus.ne.mediaone.net
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 

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