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Re: Can Red Baron access MS and Netscape?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BORG)
Sun Oct 20 01:37:12 1996
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 22:30:37 -0700
From: BORG <vladimip@iceonline.com>
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Joe Klemmer wrote:
.....
> > >> I hate to ask a dumb question but how do you know which mode you're
> > >> in? How would you change it if you wanted to?
> >
> > B> Easy. Open some high or true color JPEG or XPM in XV or
> >
> > Easier way. xdpyinfo.
>
> Ok, I'm game. Want to translate this into something I can read
> for me?
Not much to translate: it repeats 8bpp and 256 colors
7 times (almost) in a row.
.......
> depths (1): 8
...........
> depth of root window: 8 planes
...........
> depth: 8 planes
> available colormap entries: 256
........
> depth: 8 planes
> available colormap entries: 8 per subfield
.........
> depth: 8 planes
> available colormap entries: 256
......
...and for full enjoyment you need at least 16bpp, or 24bpp
even better.
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