Re: A hack for flashplayer

Keith Packard wrote:

>I've discovered that flash player gets confused when it sees a depth 32 
>visual available from the server.  I'm sure this is a bug in that code, 
>but there's not exactly a lot we can do about it.
>
>I hacked Xlib to ignore depth 32 visuals when an environment variable
>(XLIB_ IGNORE_ARGB32) is set so that I can run mozilla and still see the
>fine flash content available on the net.
>
>I'm hoping this won't be a problem for many applications; it's a bit hard 
>to understand why flash had this problem (it seems weird to happen upon a 
>non-default visual and use it's depth when creating images, but not use it 
>for creating windows).
>
>-keith
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Yeah, but this means that Mozilla can't see the depth 32 visual, 
either?  Also, are you sure that that isn't a bug in the Mozilla code?  
We open a new X connection for the flash player - it's very possible 
that we pick the wrong defaults and pass them off to the

--Chris

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