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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Porting X Applications to the DECstation 3100
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Date: 21 Aug 89 16:57:35 GMT
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    1. I can't create a 1-bit deep top-level InputOutput window when the
       depth of the root screen is 8, although I should be able to.

Why do you think you should be able to?

    2. When I go around this by making all of my windows 8 bits
       deep, but copy into them from 1-bit deep pixmaps using CopyPlane, the
       result I get is totally wrong (old window pixel 1: pixmap pixel 1: plane arg 
       to CopyPlane 1, GC plane mask FFFFFFFF, result window pixel 0).

CopyPlane in this mode depends on the foreground/background values in the GC.
You don't say what they are.