Re: Starting X in 16bit colour mode

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From: Craig Miller
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 00:00

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Steven Cook (s330134@student.uq.edu.au) wrote:
: Hi I can't remember how to start X windows in higher than 8bit colour.  I
: remember that it is something like 'startx --16 ' but I can't remember it
: exactly.
: 
startx -- -bpp 16

-- 
That's our advantage at Microsoft; we set the standards and we can change them.
   --- Karen Hargrove, Microsoft (quoted in the Feb 1993 Unix Review editorial)

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From: cam@orion.apana.org.au (Craig Miller)
Subject: Re: Starting X in 16bit colour mode
Date: 1996/11/09
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