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RE: XWin.exe fails as does startxwin.bat
- To: "Dave Cook" <dcook at caveduck dot com>, <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: XWin.exe fails as does startxwin.bat
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:19:22 -0400
- Cc: <rleurck at ifserv dot com>
Dave,
> Actually you can set a bit depth different than the Windows one
> if you use the -fullscreen
You are correct, in two out of three cases :)
However, I typically neglect to tell people to use -fullscreen as part of
troubleshooting because they may explicitly be using the GDI blitter
(-engine 1), or XWin may be falling back on the GDI blitter, in which case
the bit depth is not changed when using -fullscreen. Rather than deal with
these exception cases I try to tell them just enough to get them a working
server, after that, they can do as they choose :)
Thanks for answering questions on the list, it does ease our load,
Harold