On 18-Jun-2002 Brian Hechinger wrote: > ok, my complete lack of understand of SGI kit has caused some issues here. > adding -depth 24 -class TrueColor to /var/X11/xdm/Xservers was indeed the > solution to the problem. my error was that i thought exiting my session and > logging back in would twist xdm enough to reload it's settings. which it in > fact it does not do. > > so it's as easy as that to get it working on SGI's. >
so I am a little confused and would like some clarification. Without this change the SGI X server basically tells the X application "here I support the following depths, choose one". Sounds like fun. Time to read the ORA books again (-: > the question is, how do i get a blank space, or a seperator line in the menu > so that i can seperate things a bit? is that even possible? > see the man page, the entire menu syntax is defined. What you want is '[nop]', i.e. no-op, do nothing. > i've been using blackbox on my Octane now for several days, and i have to say > that i'm completely impressed. this is a GREAT windowmanager. i think i may > have found a window manager i like more than OpenLook. and i thought that > was going to be an impossible task. > man I thought we had a better window manager here than that. We had to struggle to beat OpenLook? I might as well give up .....
