"R. David Whitlock" wrote:
>
> OK, so normally to get into x after rebooting, I put in the following
> parameters because any lower color depths make it look ugly
>
> startx -- -bpp 16
>
> And I have that aliased as just "x" so that after getting in, i just do
> that and boom I'm in.
>
> Now I'd like to leave it in runlevel 5 because I'm rather fond of the
> windowmanager selection, and cause well, it's neat.
>
> But if I just "telinit 5", it starts up X in whatever default color depth
> I'd get if I typed in "startx", a lower color depth that is very ugly...
>
> How can I either start the runlevel 5 to use the correct color depth, or
> make it so X's default is _always_ 16?
Edit the Screen section of /etc/X11/XF86Config and add the following:
DefaultColorDepth 16
right after the Monitor line.
Make sure you edit the right Screen section, because there's probably
more than one. The one you want to edit is the one that shows your X
server in the Driver line.
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Steve Philp
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Advance Packaging Corporation
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