Re: Newbie problem with startx

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From: Bill Unruh
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 00:00

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In <3694303a.1302039@news.melbpc.org.au> jv@melbpc.org.au (John van der Veur) writes:
>Now when I run "startx" I get the required result.  Now  I need to
>learn how to change the screen resolution and the number of colours
>(256, High Colour, etc).

startx -- -bpp 16
               ^^ or 24 or 32 or 15

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