Re: FVWM: 8 bit vs. 24 bit autoselect?

From: Tomas Ogren <stric_at_ing.umu.se>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:54:13 +0100

On 27 January, 1999 - Nagle, Adrian sent me these 0.8K bytes:

>
> > The question is - is 2.1.x able to query the X server to start in 24 bit
> > mode, or is there a quick change that can be made in the code to make it
> > default to 24 bit? Any chance of a feature being added here?
> >
> Try starting X with "startx -bpp 24". If you have 24bit screens defined in
> you XF86Config file, this should work.

Umm.. he's already running with a 24 bit visual, but 8 bit as _default_
visual.. And Solaris' Xserver doesn't care much for XFree86 specific
options or config-files...

The question was how to make fvwm pick the 24bpp visual instead of the
8bpp [default] visual..

/Tomas
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