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Re: [TCLUG:12350] Color Question



On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 09:07:10AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 
> How can I change color depth on the fly?  I prefer to run in 32bpp,
> but Quake2 will only run in 16bpp and I don't want to be swapping
> xconfigs constantly or give up my wdm for startx.

	I do this:

X -bpp 16 :1

	Then virtual terminal 8 contains an X server running in 16 bpp
on display unix:1

	Kind of a pain, but better than logging out.

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