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Re: 16-bit color [message #27938 is a reply to message #13547]

Tue, 13 November 2001 12:55

James Kuyper
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Rick Towler wrote:
>
> You should be able to do this easily....
>
> If you are content with booting to the terminal and launching X manually you
> can specify what your desktop bit depth is. It has been a while since a
> linux box sat on my desk (ahhh, those were the days....) but last time I
> knew "startx -- -bpp 16" would get your 16bpp and as you can guess
> "startx -- -bpp 24" would get you 24. If you are logged in and you need to

On my home machine, "startx -- -depth 24" is the appropriate command.
The man page identifies "-bpp" as obsolete.

> change it, you would have to quit your desktop manager, then restart X at
> the appropriate bit depth. If your admin doesn't know how to change this
> boot behavior, let me know. I may be able to dredge the name of the file
> where you change the "boot to run level" setting out of my feeble brain.

I've asked about this, but the sysadmins are unwilling to allow manual
launching of X.

> If you boot to XDM (or GDM or whatever your desktop flavor calls it) which
> is the graphical login manager, I don't think you can change the desktop bit

That's precisely my situation (with gdm).

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		16-bit colors in Linux (Re: 24 bit colors in IDL) By: G. Hugh SONG on Thu, 19 November 1998 00:00
		Re: 16-bit colors in Linux (Re: 24 bit colors in IDL) By: davidf on Wed, 18 November 1998 00:00
		Re: 16-bit colors in Linux By: mallors on Fri, 20 November 1998 00:00
		Re: 16-bit color By: Nigel Wade on Wed, 14 November 2001 02:57
		Re: 16-bit color By: James Kuyper on Wed, 14 November 2001 09:09
		Re: 16-bit color By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 15 November 2001 06:10
		Re: 16-bit color By: James Kuyper on Tue, 13 November 2001 12:55
		Re: 16-bit color By: Paul van Delst on Tue, 13 November 2001 10:22
		Re: 16-bit color By: Rick Towler on Tue, 13 November 2001 09:30
		Re: 16-bit color By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 13 November 2001 08:51
		Re: 16-bit color By: James Kuyper on Tue, 13 November 2001 07:49
		Re: 16-bit color By: David Fanning on Mon, 12 November 2001 14:03
		Re: 16-bit color By: Logan Lindquist on Thu, 15 November 2001 05:18
		Re: 16-bit color By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 15 November 2001 06:57
		Re: 16-bit color By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 15 November 2001 06:33
		Re: 16-bit color By: James Kuyper on Mon, 12 November 2001 13:33
		Re: 16-bit color By: Rick Towler on Mon, 12 November 2001 11:36

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