RE: tlug: X resolution / color depth

["Jonathan Byrne--3Web" <jq@example.com>]

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7ol : Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>
6f : tlug@example.com <tlug@example.com>
z : 1998N318z 9:15
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>> The command line switch when you start X and want to set your color depth
>> is:
>> startx -bpp nn
>> Where nn is the color depth (8, 16, 24) that you want.
>>
>
>No, that's not right.  It's:
>
>startx -- -bpp nn


That's what I thought too, but if I'm not cracking up, I saw something that
gave it the way I wrote it in a man page, and it seemed to work, if I'm not
cracking up :-)   It was on my home machine.  I'll try to find it again and
copy it down.

Jonathan

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