Re: FVWM: colors, etc...

From: David Jones <t47704_at_sulu.dehavilland.ca>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 08:36:17 -0400

On Jun 5, 9:50am, Neil Zanella wrote:
> Subject: Re: FVWM: colors, etc...
>
>
> What is it that limits the number of colors to 256? I guess you are
> referring to the video card. If I am correct you can configure some video
> cards to allow for 56K colors (true color). This is somehow less much less
> than 256^3 which is the total number of possibilities for RGB colors.
>

It's the video card, the amount of video RAM and the X driver that limits you
to 256 colours (or 8 bit depth as it's called). Look in your XF86Config file
for details (assuming that you're using XFree86).

BTW true colour is not 56k colors, 8-bit depth gives 256 colours, 16-bit depth
gives 65536 colours, while 24-bit depth gives the full range of 16 million
colours (in 24-bit depth, there are 8 bits available for each red, green or
blue component, and of course 2**8 = 256).

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Received on Fri Jun 05 1998 - 07:33:03 BST