[COLUG] [OT] Older Solaris Programs crash under newer xservers

[Andrew Barr]

On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 17:35 -0400, Rob Funk wrote:
> Mike Harrold wrote:
> > > If we ssh into it and try to run the software from RHEL 4, xwin32
> > > 7.1, or xceed 8.0 (the latter two being xserver for windows the OSU
> > > has had site licensed) then it works initially, but when trying to
> > > display a graph crashes.  For xwin32 we can run it in compatability
> > > mode with 256 color, and it will work, but the colors are so bad the
> > > graph is unusable. If we try from an older version of xceed, 7.1,
> > > then it will work and the colors are acceptable.
> 
> Sounds like a color depth incompatibility.  Try running the Linux X server 
> in 16-bit color mode rather than the usual Linux default of 24-bit.

You can also use Xephyr[1] to run a nested X server at a different color
depth.

[1] http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fXephyr