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RE: 8-bit PseudoColor


Mark,

One more thing:

You CAN run in windowed mode (instead of fullscreen) if you run XWin.exe
with the -engine 1 argument and you have Windows in 8 bit color mode:

XWin -engine 1


Furthermore, the way to exit Cygwin/XFree86 is documented:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-stopping.html

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Jones [mailto:mark.jones106@verizon.net]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 2:48 PM
> To: Harold Hunt
> Subject: RE: 8-bit PseudoColor
>
>
> At 11:52 AM 2/1/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Mark,
> >
> >I need you to do two things for me:
> >
> >1) Run XWin.exe as you usually do with Windows in 8 bit mode.
> >
> >2) Run 'XWin -fullscreen -depth 8'.
>
> That made the difference.  Thanks!  I don't have the log file (none was
> created as far as I could tell) but I do have the output of that
> command.  And, looking down near the bottom of each file shows
> the difference.
>
> I did have trouble exiting full screen mode though.  Normally in non-full
> screen when I exit my window manager it fully exits, but this
> time I had to
> kill it with the windows task manager.
>
> Mark
>


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