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Date:      Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:01:16 -0500 (EST)
From:      William Melanson <wjm@gate.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NCD X-terminal, FreeBSD and XDM ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.A41.4.03.9912210959040.56162-100000@tiwa.gate.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991218210136.008e9820@mail.flrtn1.occa.home.com>

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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.



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