From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 8 16:26:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from arminho.ip.pt (arminho.ip.pt [195.23.13.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53ABF37B826 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 16:26:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cgd@teleweb.pt) Received: (qmail 47705 invoked by uid 1037); 8 Jul 2000 23:26:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO perca.ip.pt) (195.23.13.54) by arminho2.ip.pt with SMTP; 8 Jul 2000 23:26:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 42549 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2000 23:26:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO teclis08i.teleweb.pt) (195.23.160.145) by perca.ip.pt with SMTP; 8 Jul 2000 23:26:35 -0000 Received: from teleweb.pt (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by teclis08i.teleweb.pt (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA02420; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:26:59 +0100 Message-ID: <396711AF.200EF202@teleweb.pt> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 12:34:07 +0100 From: "Carlos J. G. Duarte" Reply-To: cgd@teleweb.pt Organization: Teleweb, SA X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.13 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Matt Rohrer , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [off-topic] -bpp with .xsession References: <20000706123023.A1203@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > 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. > yes, individual users can create/edit a .xserverrc file on their $HOME. that file must be executable (usually a script), and if it exists, it will be ran to launch the X server. this is usefull for changing options or even changing the PATH of our Xserver. for instance, my .xserverrc is: #! /bin/sh exec X vt08 "$@" in this case, we could add a -bpp switch to get the job done. -- carlos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message