From: tentacle tentacle boat <ttb@greenbytes.cx>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:36:21 -0400

Re: switching color depth

On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 09:50:07PM +0200, Andreas Beck wrote:
> 
> > when I run the slimy demo I get this
> > > slimy
> > LibGGI: Failed to set mode: [P8/8]
> > Error switching to 8bpp mode.
> 
> > Now Im in X and is there any way to allow X's color depth to be changed? 
> 
> AFAIK not. I restart the server for that. And I _HATE_ it. But it's probably
> impossible to change it, as the clients request the visual configuration and
> use it, so if we changed it beneath the clients, they would be very unhappy
> probably.
> 

	This will be changed in v 4.0 of Xfree, they plan to support
	on the fly depth switching :)

	john