Re: changing bit-depth in X
On 30-Mar-2002 will trillich wrote:
> okay, control-alt-plus and control-alt-minus rotate through the
> various x/y resolutions available to the X video drivers, right?
>
> is there a way to rotate through the Z dimension? that is, it'd
> be nice to see 8-bit, 16(15)bit, 24-bit... where's the manual?
>
it is not possible to do this at runtime. You either specify it as a command
line parameter or in the config file.
The reason has to do with X's design. Each program is given a handle to the
"graphics context" and "screen" this information is not updated once given.
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