The issue about display colours has been annoying me forever. My workstation of choice is a RedHat 6.1 Linux box with 24bit colour. Display managers do not work with this but I found that you can open a second Xserver on another console. (Linux has several consoles accessable using CTRL-ALT F1-FX) I use KDE as my normal window manager. This is a real color hog - particularly with netscape and the CITRIX ICA client. I have an icon on my KDE desktop which runs the following command xinit -- :1 -bpp 8 This opens a 256 colour Xserver on the next available console (F8 normally) as :1 instead of :0. My .xinitrc script starts openwin on the new Xserver as openwin does not use many colours. The new server $DISPLAY is then referenced as <hostname>:1 instead of <hostname:0> To access both the X servers you just press CTRL-ALT-F7 to get the high colour desktop and CTRL-ALT-F8 to access the 256 colour desktop. You cannot cut and paste between the Xservers though. This is the only real downside. I expect that *BSD boxes would work the same way. BTW I use MS Terminal Server to access Windows Applications. Darryl Bond NRG Gladstone Power Station Australia ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe foxboro" in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
