From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 21 7: 0:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from flathead.gate.net (flathead.gate.net [198.206.134.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39E3615423 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 07:00:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wjm@gate.net) Received: from tiwa.gate.net (tiwa.gate.net [199.227.0.141]) by flathead.gate.net (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA15344 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:00:04 -0500 Received: from localhost (wjm@localhost) by tiwa.gate.net (8.8.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA54130 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:01:16 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: tiwa.gate.net: wjm owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:01:16 -0500 (EST) From: William Melanson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NCD X-terminal, FreeBSD and XDM ... In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991218210136.008e9820@mail.flrtn1.occa.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 18 Dec 1999 iratus@home.com wrote: % >>> % >>> If I used startx on my console, I always added -- -bpp 16, to improve % >>> things...how does one do similar under xdm? I can't find anything but the % >>> man pages on this, and they don't *appear* to indicate anything I can do % >>> as a runtime option ... Within the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers just add the following: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 That's what I do and it works just as expected. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message