The -depth parameter to XWin.exe seems enough. I can leave the screen depth at what it was (32bit) and just add -depth 24 to XWin.exe.
Thanks Hrafnkell On 2002-05-30, 14:47:08 (+0100), Scott Alexander wrote: > Yep a work around for this is to lower the screen depth of your windows box > to 16 bit or what ever is closest normaly one down from max. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hrafnkell Eiríksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > it to connect to a redhat 7.3 box running kde 3.0. > > I connect via XDMCP query. The login manager works fine > > but when KDE is starting up text in the status dialog > > (starting window manager etc) is garbled (every status message > > is written on top of the last message) and I get no icons, > > not on the desktop and not on the KDE toolbar.