Re: question on armhf color depth, now keyboard

2017-04-10 Thread Diego Roversi
On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:11:06 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > Another thing that might help my poor reflexes in catching it faster, is > if the keyboard auto-repeat could be turned way slower, or even off. Yes, you can with xset r: xset r off -> disable autorepeat xset r rate 200 5 -> enable auto

Re: question on armhf color depth, now keyboard

2017-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 April 2017 15:14:55 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 10 April 2017 14:33:35 Diego Roversi wrote: > > Well, I guess I am stuck with it then. Synaptic, on a 24 bit screen, > is much more pleasant to use. > > But I also have another problem. The usb inputs from the mouse and > keyboard ar

Re: question on armhf color depth, now keyboard

2017-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 April 2017 14:33:35 Diego Roversi wrote: Well, I guess I am stuck with it then. Synaptic, on a 24 bit screen, is much more pleasant to use. But I also have another problem. The usb inputs from the mouse and keyboard aren't being given near enough priority, so keydown events are be

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-10 Thread Diego Roversi
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 22:21:43 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > I note there's a link to a help site at the top of /boot/config.txt, so I > went thru the motions of setting it for a 1366x768, 32 bit screen. But > on the reboot it was just noticably slower, and xwininfo now says its a > 24 bit screen.

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 April 2017 07:21:45 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 10/04/17 10:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 10 April 2017 04:55:39 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> On 10/04/17 02:30, Alan Corey wrote: > >>> I think you can add entries to /etc/fb.modes but it's like making > >>> old-style modelin

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-10 Thread Alan Corey
One thing I forgot to mention is fbturbo, I installed it and forgot about it until I was looking in my xlog. In principle it should be helping, in practice I'm not sure. But it hasn't caused any trouble. It's an improved frame buffer driver. One thing about the errors and warnings in xlog, is th

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 10/04/17 10:30, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 10 April 2017 04:55:39 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On 10/04/17 02:30, Alan Corey wrote: I think you can add entries to /etc/fb.modes but it's like making old-style modelines, it takes lots of information. And my old buddy xvidtune doesn't work on

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 April 2017 04:55:39 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 10/04/17 02:30, Alan Corey wrote: > > I think you can add entries to /etc/fb.modes but it's like making > > old-style modelines, it takes lots of information. And my old buddy > > xvidtune doesn't work on a Pi. But you're a tv guy. >

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 10/04/17 02:30, Alan Corey wrote: I think you can add entries to /etc/fb.modes but it's like making old-style modelines, it takes lots of information. And my old buddy xvidtune doesn't work on a Pi. But you're a tv guy. Video modes have been causing me a great deal of pain over the last fe

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
t; > xwininfo: Please select the window about which you > > would like information by clicking the > > mouse in that window. > > > > xwininfo: Window id: 0x38c "Gmail - question on armhf color > > depth - Mozilla Firefox" > > &

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-09 Thread Alan Corey
ect the window about which you >> > would like information by clicking the >> > mouse in that window. >> > >> > xwininfo: Window id: 0x38c "Gmail - question on armhf color >> > depth - Mozilla Firefox" >> > >>

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-09 Thread Alan Corey
m X or the window manager, not to mention a color map and >>>> > graphics context. If you have xwininfo (command line program so >>>> > it's not in menus) try it a little: >>>> > >>>> > pi2# xwininfo >>>> > >&g

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-09 Thread Alan Corey
le: >>> > >>> > pi2# xwininfo >>> > >>> > xwininfo: Please select the window about which you >>> > would like information by clicking the >>> > mouse in that window. >>> > >>> > xwinin

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-09 Thread Alan Corey
gt; >> > xwininfo: Please select the window about which you >> > would like information by clicking the >> > mouse in that window. >> > >> > xwininfo: Window id: 0x38c "Gmail - question on armhf color >> > depth - Mozilla Firefox"

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
t; > xwininfo: Please select the window about which you > > would like information by clicking the > > mouse in that window. > > > > xwininfo: Window id: 0x38c "Gmail - question on armhf color > > depth - Mozilla Firefox" > > &

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
by clicking the > mouse in that window. > > xwininfo: Window id: 0x38c "Gmail - question on armhf color depth > - Mozilla Firefox" > > Absolute upper-left X: 35 > Absolute upper-left Y: 65 > Relative upper-left X: 1 > Relative upper-left Y: 30 >

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-09 Thread Alan Corey
f you have xwininfo (command line program so it's not in menus) try it a little: pi2# xwininfo xwininfo: Please select the window about which you would like information by clicking the mouse in that window. xwininfo: Window id: 0x300008c "Gmail - question on armhf c

question on armhf color depth

2017-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
Grettings all; raspbian jessie on a pi-3b. Specifically, can it be set to use more bits? Several of the programs I run on the pi, have much greater highlight detail when running on an x86 machine, and this lack of adequate color depth makes a pulldown menu lose its outline borders, so its diff