Re: Colour depth in xwindows

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From: Tony Sarathchandra
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:00

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mander@ipswich.gil.com.au wrote:
: Hi
: Does anyone use xwindows (xfree) under linux?
: If so, does anyone know how to change the colour depth.
: I would like to use 64000 colours instead of the default 256 colours.
: Any help would be apreciated.
: Cheers,
: 

If XF supports your graphics adapter in more that 8 bit colour depth, you
can start these modes by a command line argument to 'startx' like,

'startx -- 16 bpp' or 'startx -- 24 bpp'

from memory, not sure about the spacing though.

Tony


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