Re: Wine in Tango

[Francois Gouget]

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Joel Holdsworth wrote:
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> 16-bit works fine - X renders the icons in true color then downsamples.
> greyscale/monochrome will be similar, not that the end result would be
> pretty. A more realistic case is 8-bit, and the only way I can think to
> set that up is with ssh+X11 in cygwin in a WinXP VM with the screen
> depth set to 8-bit, but wine doesn't even start in this case due to
> missing extensions, so I assume it's not supported.

The right way to test paletted 8bpp is probably to use vncserver. 
Something like that should do it:

vncserver -depth 8 -cc 3

I tested Wine in paletted mode years ago and it worked at the time.