On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, David Fay wrote:
> I run blackbox on a Mac clone running Linuxppc. When I start Linuxppc it
> inherits information from the Mac OS. When I set Mac OS to "millions" of
> colors (color depth of 24 bpp), everything looks fine in blackbox.
> However, when I set the Mac OS to "thousands" of colors (color depth of
> 16 bpp), blackbox styles look color-starved. What I mean is that they
> show many fewer colors and no gradients, to the point that I can't even
> see some of the controls.
>
> Yet it seems to me that blackbox should work fine with only 16 bpp. In
> fact, my son, who runs blackbox on a PC, says he can hardly tell the
> difference in blackbox between running X at depth of 16 and depth of 24.
>
> So what am I doing wrong? Is there any way to change the color depth in
> blackbox or does it inherit that from X?
>
> I don't start X up myself; it is started by gdm. So I'm not really sure
> what depth it is running in. All I know is what the Mac OS was running
> in. I'm thinking maybe X is getting the color depth wrong and that
> blackbox gets messed up by that. Is there any way to tell what color
> depth X is running in?
there are 2 ways to tell... one is to run xdpyinfo, which gives
information like this:
...
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (433x347 millimeters)
resolution: 75x75 dots per inch
depths (1): 24
...
the second is to look and see what depth/visual blackbox says it is using
:)
[bhughes@reticent] ~% grep depth .xsession-errors
BScreen::BScreen: managing screen 0 using visual 0x22, depth 24
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> David
>
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