Quoting Offer Kaye, from the post of Sun, 23 Jan: > > > > I couldn't find one built into KDE - I expected the desktop manager > to include a utility to change the color depth. I even expected it to > be available from the settings winow you get by right-clicking the > desktop and choosing "properties". Silly me, I wonder where I got that > strange notion...
must be because you are used to running "Operating" systems as administrator with user-level operations that let you touch tier-0 almost directly and shoot yourself in the foot. sorry, you started with the uninteligent sarcasm first... YES, it's true that X is old, ugly, wasteful, unfriendly... but it's been there for the last umteen years and became a de-facto standard. not a very good one, not even the best of breed when it was first suggested, but that's the one they chose. Mind you, the better one is not the MS system but Quartz from Apple. If they had half a heart they would have ported it to Linux and made a splash. what do you want us to say? that Linux should break compatibility with every single X application in existance and move to something new with support for nested X like Apple did and like project Berlin is trying to do? you are absolutely right, and you are not alone to think that, but it's hard to change the world's installed base so drasticly overnight. > > This is not a real problem of Linux... So you > > configure it once and then don't touch it later. > > > > Configure it *how*!? That's exactly my problem - I couldn't find an > easy way to configure the color depth. edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 of fall back to /etc/X11/XF86Config if it doesn't exist. look for the DefaultDepth parameter and change it to 24. restart X. if you want a script that does it in 4-5 lines, with bash and awk, let me know. now if you can please stop this silly thread, it's taking up brain bandwidth, and gaining you disrespect. -- Biohazard Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
