Re: Changing number of colors of XServer
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote:
I just read my reply and found out I had a mistake...
> On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the information,
> >
> > How does the XServer know WHICH Screen section to use? I notice that my file has
> > several sections labled like this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Doug
> >
>
> The default is 256 colors, you can change that by running X as:
> startx -- -bpp 16/24/32 for better performance.
>
> You can add it by default to the conf. file, but I don't remember the name
> of the entry, somethinglike DefaultColorDepth, but I'm not sure, read the
> documentation.
>
> You can also edit a file in a users directory .xserverrc with the line
> #!/bin/sh
> exec X -- -bpp 16
^^^ This shouldn't be here.
>
> HTH,
> Liran.
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