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From: Dannyman @ stumpy <dannyman@stumpy.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XDM and more colors...
Date: 4 Jun 1997 04:55:54 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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Reto Burkhalter <borki@rb.xs.use.ch> wrote:
> I'm using xdm from rc.local to start my X.
> (/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm).
> Now, I'd like to have more colors than 8 bpp's.
> In which config-file do I have to change this?
/usr/X11/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers
# $XConsortium: Xserv.ws.cpp,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:30 gildea Exp $
#
# Xservers file, workstation prototype
#
# This file should contain an entry to start the server on the
# local display; if you have more than one display (not screen),
# you can add entries to the list (one per line). If you also
# have some X terminals connected which do not support XDMCP,
# you can add them here as well. Each X terminal line should
# look like:
# XTerminalName:0 foreign
#
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16
> (Looked in the man pages, but found nothing...)
(Looked in the man pages, got reaaaal lucky ... ;)
-bpp 16 is 16 bit ... yadda yadda
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