Bug 10750 - Cairo does not yet support Depth: 8, e.g. VNC
Summary: Cairo does not yet support Depth: 8, e.g. VNC
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 7735
Alias: None
Product: cairo
Classification: Unclassified
Component: xlib backend (show other bugs)
Version: 1.4.5
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: high blocker
Assignee: Carl Worth
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Reported: 2007-04-24 16:21 UTC by George Forman
Modified: 2007-04-24 16:54 UTC (History)
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Description George Forman 2007-04-24 16:21:53 UTC 
Lots of people use 'vncserver -depth 8'   to avoid shipping lots of bits long distances across the net.  Yet metacity dies with this error: *********

~% metacity
Window manager warning: Log level 32: could not find XKB extension.
Error: Cairo does not yet support the requested image format:  ***********
        Depth: 8
        Alpha mask: 0x00000000
        Red   mask: 0x00000007
        Green mask: 0x00000038
        Blue  mask: 0x000000c0
Please file an enhacement request (quoting the above) at:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=cairo
metacity: cairo-image-surface.c:155: _cairo_format_from_pixman_format: Assertion `NOT_REACHED' failed.
Abort

% metacity --version
version 2.16.0

Thank you.
   George
Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2007-04-24 16:54:02 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 7735 ***

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