Re: Why does X default to vt7?

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From: Terry Dawson
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 00:00

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Herbert Xu (herbert@greathan.apana.org.au) wrote:
: If you use xdm, edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and add the option
: vt11 somewhere on that line.  For different colour depths, add
: the option -bpp xx where xx is your desired depth.
: 
: If you use startx, then startx -- vt11 -bpp xx will do what you
: want.

Is that so ? Excellent, you learn something new every day.

regards
Terry

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