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RE: Re: different bit depths
- To: j dot j dot ita at siep dot shell dot com
- Subject: RE: Re: different bit depths
- From: Chad Austin <aegis at melchior dot nerv-un dot net>
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 15:30:44 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com
32-bit color
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Chad Austin (Aegis)
http://www.nerv-un.net/~aegis/
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 j.j.ita@siep.shell.com wrote:
> What color depth is your display set to normally (ie what does
> Start->Settngs->ControlPanel->Display->settings tell you)?
>
> Joel
> ----Original Message-----
> From: aegis@nerv-un.net [mailto:aegis@nerv-un.net]
> Sent: 03 November 2000 19:18
> To: Ita, Joel J.J.
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: different bit depths
>
>
> I changed the line in startxwin.bat to look like this, and twm and KDE
> still
> look funky.
>
> start XWin -screen 0 1024x768x32
>
>
> >
> > Chad,
> > The answer to your second question will also answer your first
> > one. The 8 refers to a screen number. This should actually be set to
> 0
> > instead of 8 for the command line arguments to have an effect on the
> > Xserver you start on a single headed machine. I believe the default is
> > 8 bit if you do not specify the properties for screen 0 and that is
> why
> > you are having problems.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > > How can I get XFree on NT4 to display 32-bit color? I
> > > changed the -screen
> > > option in startxwin.bat to look like this:
> > >
> > > -screen 8 1024x768x32
> > >
> > > The X server runs properly, but it seems that the actual bit
> > > depth is still 8
> > > bpp.
> > >
> > > Also, what does the 8 in that option mean?
>
> --
> Chad Austin (AegisKnight)
> http://www.nerv-un.net/~aegis/
>
>