The Answer Guy 28: xdm in 16bpp Mode

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# The Answer Guy

#### By James T. Dennis, answerguy@ssc.com
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### `xdm` in 16bpp Mode

From Aubrey Pic on Wed, 15 Apr 1998

How do you get `XDM` to run in 16 bpp???? I belive it runs 8bpp by default. I have a `.xserverrc` file that forces 16 bpp. Whenever I ran `XBANNER`, it would default to 8 bpp. Thank you.

> Did you try putting it into your XConfig file? That seems to work for me. I presume this is an XFree86 installation (rather than Xig or X-insides or MetroX).
> Does it work when you use `startx -- 16bpp` from a shell command line?

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Published in Linux Gazette Issue 28 May 1998