Did you try the Cairo back end? I vaguely remember reading about Cairo improving support for 8-bit displays a few years ago when people started wanting to use it on things like the OLPC and eInk displays (with 64 and 16 colours, respectively).
David P.S. Any chance that I could borrow an account on the SPARCbook for a few hours at some point so I can add SPARC32 support to libobjc2? On 9 Jun 2012, at 11:25, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > Hi, > > I got GNUstep up and running on a Tadpole Sparcbook 3GX under OpenBSD ;) > Riccardo recommended me to use the xlib graphics backend. > > Generally it seems to be all fine, besides a little bit slow. Since its only 8 > Bit display, colors sometimes look a bit weirdo ;) > > When applications are starting, I see the following warning on the console: > > WARNING - XGServer is unable to use the fast algorithm for writing to an 8-bit > display on this host - the most likely reason being the StandardColormap > RGB_BEST_MAP has not been installed. > > My hope is when I can get rid of the warning, then colors may look a bit > better, > and maybe if it then uses the "fast algorithm" things may feel faster on that > box. > > Googling for the RGB_BEST_MAP, I found its related to xlib, but what exactly, > and how to install it, its not clear to me. > I hope someone has a cluestick and can point me into the right direction. > > Sebastian > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep -- Sent from my Difference Engine _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
