On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 20:47, David Jansen wrote:
On a related note: gdmflexiserver is somewhat undocumented and hidden: no menu entry, no man page. One thing I would like to find out is if gdmflexiserver can start an X session in anything other than the default visual, since I have a few old applications which run best in 8-bit color (since they try to manipulate the colormap direcly). Any pointers?
This might lead you to a solution:
Edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, in the [server-Chooser] section (at the bottom) change to "flexible=true". Then create a new XServer config for the chooser such as (customize to needs): [server-8BitColor] name=Legacy-Apps Server command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -audit 0 -depth 8 -display=:10 flexible=true
Save and then run gdmflexiserver and it'll pop up a chooser dialog where you can select your "server-8BitColor" X Server.
Matt