From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 6 0: 0:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D5F337C173 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 00:00:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 983 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2000 07:00:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (qmailr@144.16.71.158) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 6 Jul 2000 07:00:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 1497 invoked by uid 211); 6 Jul 2000 07:00:23 -0000 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 12:30:23 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Matt Rohrer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [off-topic] -bpp with .xsession Message-ID: <20000706123023.A1203@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Matt Rohrer , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from rohrer@pdx.edu on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:06:55PM -0700 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.0-test3 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Rohrer said on Jul 5, 2000 at 21:06:55: > How does one specify the -bpp when starting x from wdm or xdm? I know it > is a switch to startx, but I've been reading man pages and initialization > files for a while now and can't seem to figure it out. TIA I don't know whether individual users can control it with .xsession, probably not, but globally you can edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers and add the -bpp flag to the X line there. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message