Pink browser window

[telackey]

I will grab a screenshot later, but to enable some sort of reasonable browsing on my O2 R5K, I launch the browser over ssh on a RaspberryPi (pi4 in my case) with my O2 as the remote X display target. It works pretty well all things considered.

However, chromium and Vivaldi browsers display with a red/pinkish hue cast over the entire window. As I result, I've been using luakit, which displays perfectly. I haven't even attempted to debug this, but I wondered if anyone had encountered something similar using remote X.

 

[flexion]

Same here, some apps display in red. I have not tried luakit yet, I use Midori as x-forwarded browser and colors are OK.

 

[telackey]

Here is an example. Luakit on the left, Chromium on the right. I tried various --disable-gpu and related options but no change.

Firefox works OK, but is very sluggish.

 

[doc]

Have you solved the pink color issue? If I recall correctly, this is due to color depth or number of colors on the SGI machine. If you change it in X config and restart with a higher setting, it will be good. I don't recall whether the solution was to modify the Xsgi startup line or this was choosable from the GUI-based resolution chooser.

 

[telackey]

I had not, but I'll try it and report back...

 

[jenna64bit]

Here is a good guide on that https://software.majix.org/irix/desktop-depth.shtml . SGI always defaults to 8 bit depth on the desktop. This is because older programs individually request 24 bit depth. Since newer programs assume 24 bit depth, they never ask for a 24 bit window on start. It's good to update that setting in general, and hopefully it helps with your issue.