[ale] Xdm startup question

vaidhy at wwdg.com vaidhy at wwdg.com
Mon Jul 20 23:00:32 EDT 1998


I don't know much about redhat.. but in my machine running Debian 2.0,
I have a line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers

:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -bpp 16


Hope that helps :-)

Regards,
Vaidhy

> From: "John M. Mills" <jmills at jmills.gtri.gatech.edu>
> I am running RH4.2 and XFree86-3.3.1.
> 
> I would like to change the default color depth when my system starts at
> runlevel 5, running 'xdm'.  If I start X manually, I could do something
> like:
> % startx -- -bpp 16
> 
> How do I tell 'init' or 'xdm' to start with an option like this?
> 






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