Well, it's not on-the-fly like you want, but one way is, when loading X,
to specify the color depth, via:
xstart -- -bpp XX
Where XX is the desired depth.
Jamie
On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 06:20:58PM -0700, Jason Barnes wrote:
>
> Stabilizers:
>
> I find that I have to keep two /etc/XF86Config files around, one
> for 24-bit color, and one for 8-bit color, that I copy onto XF86Config
> itself in order to change the color depth on my X display. I then have to
> restart the server in order to get things working properly.
> Ctrl-Alt-+/- change screen resolution on the fly, is there a way
> to change the screen color depth on the fly? It seems to me that there
> must be because otherwise there's no point to having the extra color depth
> SubSections in the XF86Config file in the first place, but I haven't been
> able to identify what the command is.
> AtDhVaAnNkCsE!
>
> - Jason
>
> PS: On a mostly unrelated note, why is it that some programs (i.e.,
> xanim, doom) require 8 bit color and can't handle more colors? I can
> understand the other way, but it seems to me that it ought to be able to
> use a 256-color subset of the available 16.8 million to work in and not
> just be completely unable to operate.
>
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