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From: Stewart <bdlists@snerk.org>
Subject: Re: changing color depth in XFree86
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 11:11:26 -0400
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terry white wrote:

>     you make a wonderful case for the bane of poor programming.
> 
>     however , i got lost when you equated 'color-depth' and geometry.

"equated" how? The fact that the ability to change either or both of 
them on the fly is desireable?

> : Changing resolution on the fly
> 
>     what, CTRL-ALT-(+|-) doesn't work for you ...

That creates a small window of a large surface, it doesn't change the 
resolution of my screen area.