Re: FVWM: help interpreting output from xdpyinfo

From: Tim Phipps <Tim_Phipps_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 09:49:22 +0100

Peter Bismuti wrote:
>
> I'm having problems with my colors, I was
> told to run 'xdpyinfo', I'm not sure now
> to interpret the results, what should
> I be looking at?

> default screen number: 0
> number of screens: 1

You have one screen

> screen #0:
> depths (1): 24

of depth 24

> number of visuals: 1

You have one visual

> default visual id: 0x22
> visual:
> visual id: 0x22
> class: TrueColor
> depth: 24 planes

which is a TrueColor.

What this all means is that your graphics card can display bazillions of
colors and if something isn't displaying the correct colors it isn't
because the card has run out. It's more likely to be a configuration
problem with the client.

Cheers,
Tim.
--
Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>.
To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a
message to majordomo_at_fvwm.org.
To report problems, send mail to fvwm-owner_at_fvwm.org.
Received on Thu May 25 2000 - 08:52:18 BST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Mon Aug 29 2016 - 19:37:50 BST