RE: tlug: X resolution / color depth

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

Jonathan Byrne--3Web writes:
 > 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > 
7ol : Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>
 > 6f : tlug@example.com <tlug@example.com>
 > z : 1998N318z 9:15
 > < : RE: tlug: X resolution / color depth
 > 
 > 
 > >> The command line switch when you start X and want to set your color depth
 > >> is:
 > >> startx -bpp nn
 > >> Where nn is the color depth (8, 16, 24) that you want.
 > >>
 > >
 > >No, that's not right.  It's:
 > >
 > >startx -- -bpp nn
 > 
 > 
 > That's what I thought too, but if I'm not cracking up, I saw something that
 > gave it the way I wrote it in a man page, and it seemed to work, if I'm not
 > cracking up :-)   It was on my home machine.  I'll try to find it again and
 > copy it down.
 > 
It has to be -- because you are passing the option to the program that is
called by startx (thats X of course) and not to startx itself.

Marcus

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