Chances are, you are running X at 8bpp. Thats the installation default. To run it with a different depth use startx -- -bpp 16 or 24 or 32 I think 32 would correspond to millions of colors. Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrei S. Ivanov c680789@showme.missouri.edu UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Little things for Linux.