Re: X options in XDM?

[Shane Watts <shane@Nexus.mlckew.edu.au>]

Bernd S. Brentrup wrote:
> 
> James A. Robinson writes:
> >
> >Is it possible to pass options to the X server when XDM is being used?
> >I want to specify a deeper depth, but can't figure out what I need to
> >edit.
> 
> Editing /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers works for me:
> 
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16

You can also use the following....

startx -- -bpp 16

Anything after the "--" is the list of options that is passed to
the X server.

Hope this helps.

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