Ohh...Nice information,,,Thanks a lot James..You are right that Linux distributer like Fedora has modified Free version and having patches for them but it is just for Xorg structure and I cant use it for XFree86. Any help regarding this will be much helpful.
Thanks, Paresh On 6/26/08, James Weatherall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paresh, > > Alpha channels allow imagery to be composed with transparency, so that the > original image still shows through to some extent behind the newly-applied > stuff. This is called alpha-blending, and is used to render text more > prettily, amongst other things. > > The X11 RENDER extension is supported by VNC Enterprise Edition servers, > but > not by the current VNC Free Edition, although I believe that many Linux > distributions have modified Free Edition servers that also support RENDER. > Regardless of whether RENDER is enabled, the desktop framebuffer will still > use depth 24, since it doesn't need an alpha channel. > > Cheers, > > -- > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of paresh masani > > Sent: 26 June 2008 12:22 > > To: James Weatherall > > Cc: Corne Beerse; vnc-list@realvnc.com > > Subject: Re: 24-bit color support to Xvnc > > > > James, > > > > I think you are missing something here. Google tells me ( > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_channel) that Microsoft > > makes use of this upper 8 bits. however, I found that X11 > > only uses these bits as part of XRender and RealVNC doesn't > > seem to support XRender. Am i correct? > > > > Thanks, > > Paresh > > > > > > On 6/20/08, James Weatherall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Paresh, > > > > > > That means that your Windows desktop is using depth 24 at 32 > > > bits-per-pixel, not depth 32 - depth refers to the number > > of bits of > > > actual colour information per pixel, while bits-per-pixel refers to > > > the size of data element used to store the pixel values. > > > > > > The standard format for the "Highest (32-bit)" setting in > > Windows is 8 > > > bits for each of the red, green and blue components, with the 8 > > > remaining bits unused(*). > > > > > > -- > > > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd > > > > > > (*) Actually, they might be used for alpha-channel, > > Z-buffer or other > > > auxilliary data, but in VNC-land, we normally just count > > the RGB bits > > > towards the "depth". > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: paresh masani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: 20 June 2008 09:18 > > > > To: James Weatherall > > > > Cc: Corne Beerse; vnc-list@realvnc.com > > > > Subject: Re: 24-bit color support to Xvnc > > > > > > > > Yes James...I have set the screen resoulution to > > Higesh-32 bit color. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Paresh > > > > > > > > > > > > On 6/19/08, James Weatherall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Paresh, > > > > > > > > Are you sure that the machine on which you're using > > VNC Viewer > > > > supports > > > > depth 32, and not depth 24 at 32 bits-per-pixel? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: paresh masani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Sent: 19 June 2008 14:32 > > > > > To: Corne Beerse > > > > > Cc: James Weatherall; vnc-list@realvnc.com > > > > > Subject: Re: 24-bit color support to Xvnc > > > > > > > > > > Thanks a lot for much clarification. Means Xvnc will not > > > > > supprot 32bit color ever. Is it possible? because my > > > > > vncviewer can run at 32-depth but Xvnc doent support > > > > 32-depth. why?? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Paresh > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > VNC-List mailing list > > VNC-List@realvnc.com > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > > > > _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
