Re: 16bpp with XDM

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From: Deeran Peethamparam
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 00:00

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Col Mackrory <mackrory@acay.com.au> was reported as saying:
> Can someone please tell me how to get 16bpp colour using XDM.
> 
> I run Linux 2.0.29 with XFree 3.3
> 
> I have only started using XDM, previously I used  "startx -- -bpp 16" to
> get the desired colour depth. With XDM it defaults to 8bpp.

Have a squiz in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xserverrc (or thereabouts :).

You can add command line arguments there somwhere....

> Thanks,
> Col.
> mackrory@acay.com.au

Cheers.  HTH.

Deeran


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