From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 13 15:24:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05723 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:24:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA05601 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 22:24:24 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA05753; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:22:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:22:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Capriotti cc: Kevin Liquori , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: X, xinit, startx In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980413201915.0093a500@pop.mpc.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Capriotti wrote: > Use starts,so that you can define the number of colors you will use by typing: > > startx --24bpp This should be startx -- -bpp 24 the -- argument means to pass the rest of the command arguments directly to the X server. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message