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Re: Setting default screen settings for xwindows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Watts)
Sun Nov 29 04:33:03 1998
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 09:30:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tom Watts <tom@twatts.demon.co.uk>
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Look in your XF86Config file (usually in /etc/X11) and in a text editor
add the line DefaultColorDepth 16(or 24 or 32) in the list of screen
setups (near the end of the file). Set the inital resolution of the
chosen color depth to be the preferred one to use.
Tom.
root@twatts.demon.co.uk
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, W. Chad Smith wrote:
> I'm just not getting how you set the default resolution/depth for XWindows.
> I have the RH Unleashed book which goes through the xfconfig etc. etc. but
> I'm just not understanding where you enter the codes to make it boot up into
> your preferred settings, i.e. 1280X1024X16bit
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> W. Chad Smith
> smithwi3@pilot.msu.edu
> http://members.home.net/wcsmith
>
>
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