I still have to try the xephyr command sequence you prop
but I just permit to dubt about your "hardware dependency
sophistication" as I find that a device retro compatibity to gray
scale is usually certain, then if it is a software driver limitiation
could be an other pair of shoes.. Sorry to underline this
maybe useless point to a solution.
dan
Feb 20, 2026 22:49:13 Crystal Kolipe <kolipe.c@exoticsilicon.com>:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 09:35:33PM +0100, Noth wrote:
>> Yes we had someone on IRC a while back (like at least 5 years ago) who was
>> complaining of this, grayscale doesn't work anymore in xenocara, and that
>> may be the case in regular Xorg too. I guess we have zero users who use this
>> mode?
>
> It certainly does work. But it depends on the underlying graphics driver.
>
> $ Xephyr :1 -grayscale &
> $ xterm -bg black -fg green -display :1
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