Re: X on O2, this time for real

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

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