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Re: X at higher resolutions, and embedding lower resolutions



	I heard that XFree86 3.3.2 has default color depth options during setup.


Carroll Kong

On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:

> edit /etc/X11/XF86zConfig (on a hamm system) or /etc/XF86Config (on a bo system)
> and add the following line in the "Screen" section (the sae section that
> lists  which monitor, vid card, and resolutions and server all in one)
> DefaultColorDepth 16
> it really does help....I can't stand 8 bit color
> I love running X in 1024x768 32bpp   :)
> -Steve
> 
> Maximiano C. Francisco III wrote:
> 
> > How do you enable X to run at say 16 bpp?  I know you can tell X to run
> > at 16bpp by running X as:
> >                     X -bpp 16
> > But how do you make sure that everytime I log on it goes to this
> > resolution automatically?
> >
> > Also, I have some applications which run only in 8bpp mode, and I HATE
> > having to restart X each time I need to run these apps.  Is there a way
> > I can run my default X session in 16 bpp, but still run these 8bpp apps?
> >
> > thanx...
> >
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