Strange results from xdpyinfo

[Eric Gunther]

This may help:

VcxSrv


                Description
            
            Windows X-server 
based on the xorg git sources (like xming or cygwin's xwin), but 
compiled with Visual C++ 2012 Express Edition. Source code can also be 
compiled with VS2008, VS2008 Express Edition and VS2010 Express
Edition,
 although current project and makefile are not fully compatible
anymore.

: from https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/



-Eric Gunther


On Sat, 2016-04-23 at 18:28 +0100, David C. Partridge wrote:
> When using two relatively recent X implementations (VcxSrv, Ubuntu
> 14.04) an X client reports strange results from xdypinfo.
>  
> Specifically there are multiple (many, many) results looking like:
>  
>   visual:
>     visual id:    0x8c
>     class:    TrueColor
>     depth:    24 planes
>     available colormap entries:    256 per subfield
>     red, green, blue masks:    0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
>     significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
>   visual:
>     visual id:    0x8d
>     class:    TrueColor
>     depth:    24 planes
>     available colormap entries:    256 per subfield
>     red, green, blue masks:    0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
>     significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
>   visual:
>     visual id:    0x8e
>     class:    TrueColor
>     depth:    24 planes
>     available colormap entries:    256 per subfield
>     red, green, blue masks:    0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
>     significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
>  
> this is blowing the buffer for an application that uses xdpyinfo to
> determine the display resolution to use.
>  
> By contrast OpenText Exceed shows only ONE 24 plane entry.
>  
> Is there any fix for this problem?
>  
> Thanks
> Dave
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