Re: starting 8-bit color depth X server from a script
Re: starting 8-bit color depth X server from a script
- Subject: Re: starting 8-bit color depth X server from a script
- From: Brandon Allbery <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:31:53 -0500
On Feb 1, 2010, at 13:47 , Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
Fair enough, but the command I want to run requires 8-bit color, and
barfs
a comprehensible-to-you-and-me-but-not-to-my-users error message
when it's
run with a different color depth.
A better solution might be a wrapper which checks the default color
depth and spawns an "Xnest -bpp 8" if it doesn't match.
(I would also suggest yelling at the software developer if there's no
way to constrain the visual it uses --- except I've been there, and
some of those vendors don't want to hear about it. *sigh*)
--
brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] email@hidden
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] email@hidden
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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