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Using Visual Classes
A visual class (or visual) is the X Window System™ terminology
to describe the characteristics of a display. X defines the visual
classes listed in this table.
Static classes do not support the use of a modifiable colormap,
but the corresponding dynamic classes do.
The RX/PCI board has a default visual class of GrayScale.
PseudoColor
applications run only on displays with a
visual class. You can configure the RX/PCI board to emulate
PseudoColor
System with
Static Class
• StaticGray
• StaticColor
• TrueColor
is the most common display type. Some
for applications by invoking the X Window
PseudoColor
Dynamic Class
• GrayScale
• PseudoColor
• DirectColor
as the default visual class.
default
PseudoColor