From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stewart Subject: Re: changing color depth in XFree86 Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 00:10:19 -0400 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EA0CC2B.50602@snerk.org> References: <200304171748.h3HHm4E16745@photon.hao.ucar.edu> <16031.3423.437052.927106@cerise.nosuchdomain.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <16031.3423.437052.927106@cerise.nosuchdomain.co.uk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Glynn Clements Cc: Barry Gamblin , linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Glynn Clements wrote: > You can't change the colour depth of a running X server. [...] > BTW, you can't change the framebuffer resolution (i.e. the size of the > root window) either; the resolution switching only affects the > displayed resolution (you end up displaying a scrolling window onto > the framebuffer). This used to be true, but as of XFree86 4.3.0 and the xrandr utility you can (finally!) change resolution and colour depth. Frontends are forthcoming from your friendly neighborhood window|desktop management centres. Upgrade and behold the goodness of a drop-shadowed mouse cursor (worth the price of admission, IMHO. ;> ) -- Stewart Honsberger http://blackdeath.snerk.org/ "Capitalists, by nature, organize to protect themselves. -- Geeks, by nature, resist organizaion."