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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!knews.uk0.vbc.net!vbcnet-gb!azure.xara.net!xara.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!hammer.uoregon.edu!leto.ou.edu!news.ou.edu!news.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!not-for-mail From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XDM and more colors... Date: 4 Jun 1997 10:22:59 -0500 Organization: Computer Science Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5n418j$m4v@plains.NoDak.edu> References: <zk+TVMD4F99aez3@rb.xs.use.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42339 In article <zk+TVMD4F99aez3@rb.xs.use.ch> you write: >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? Assuming that you have configured X to handle more colors (I will use 24 bit color as an example), then edit /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers. change to line: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X to :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 24 --mark.