Re: X on O2, this time for real

"Jared D. McNeill" <[email protected]> Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:53:16 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sgimips
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 12:22:57PM -0500, Michael wrote:
>> Hat's weird but I didn't pay any attention to the composite and damage  
>> extensions at all - they slow the whole thing down considerably so I  
>> have them disabled on most of my machines.
> 
> Not realy a mystery - with DAMAGE and COMPOSITE enabled, the defaul visual suddenly
> becomes ARGB and many, many applications and libraries just can not handle
> that properly. We realy should disable them by default.

Please don't; instead, set the XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS environment 
variable when running broken applications.

Cheers,
Jared