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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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