X11 driver
This was the first driver done for XaoS. It supports many visuals,
shared colormaps and MitSHM extension.
Bugs/limitations:
- XaoS makes some X servers too busy
- Sometimes XaoS generates images faster than X can display them.
In this case XaoS responds poorly to the mouse, and other
applications slow down too. This happens especially often on old R4
servers. Use
-sync to avoid this problem. Note that
-sync does not make all communication
with X asynchronous; it just adds one additional XSync call. So the
slowdown is not as large as you might expect.
- Does not work on all visuals
- This driver supports only 8bpp pseudocolor/grayscales, 15,16,24
and 32bpp truecolor, 1bpp and 8bpp staticolor visuals.
- Palette rotating does not work for 8bpp pseudocolor w/o private
palette
X11 driver was written by Jan Hubicka and Thomas Marsh,
1997.