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- From: tdn@foo.esd.sgi.com (Todd Newman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Setting the X Window Visual Class
- Message-ID: <nkouv00@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 00:45:49 GMT
- References: <2084@pvi.UUCP>
- Sender: news@zola.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc.
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- In article <2084@pvi.UUCP>, gmhm@pvi.UUCP (Mike Mayer) writes:
-
- |> I need to know how to set the visual class and display depth
- |> of an SGI workstation (more accurately, the root window, window:0).
-
- The file is /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers
- Mine looks like this:
- :0 secure /usr/bin/X11/X -bs -c -pseudomap 4sight
- You can add -class <classname> and -depth <depth> to change the default
- class and depth for the root window. (which is not called window:0).
- If you run xdpyinfo on your workstation, you can find out which classes are
- supported at which depths. I'd tell you, but it differs from machine to
- machine.
- (For your info, -bs turns off backing store. You WANT to do this because
- backing store doesn't work. -c turns off keyclick, -pseudomap 4sight
- loads the first several entries of the default colormap (which is 8 bits
- PseudoColor if you don't specify otherwise) to look the way it did under
- IRIX 3.3.
-
- Also note that you can find out all the server command line options by
- typing Xsgi -help.
-
- /tdn
-