Re: Colour Corruption on remote X11 with different endians

[Tim Schmielau]

I've wondered for a long time why I always get red text as blue and  
sometimes also black text as blue. I never realized it could be due to  
endianness differences.
I use the same combination as you, GNUstep on x64 (-64), X server on  
PPC, art backend.

Tim

On 16 Aug 2008, at 22:39, David Chisnall wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I've done a bit more testing with GNUstep and remote X11 with the X  
> server running on PowerPC (little endian) and the apps running on  
> x86 (big endian):
>
> With the xlib back end, everything is fine.
> With the art back end, almost everything is fine, but pixmaps have  
> their colours inverted.
> With the cairo back end, everything has its colour inverted.
>
> Since the xlib back end lacks a number of features, this isn't  
> ideal.  It is also, however, a lot more responsive than the other  
> two (with art being slower than cairo).
>
> David