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I want to increase the color depth for my user account in kde. I cannot edit the configuration in /etc/X11. Is it possible?
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I want to increase the color depth for my user account in kde. I cannot edit the configuration in /etc/X11. Is it possible?
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No, it is not possible to change this outside of the xorg.conf configuration. You can look here:
http://www.x.org/archive/current/doc/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.xhtml
If the variables are available for run-time configuration they will say:
"and the value can be changed at run−time with xset(1) ..."
You can see the Depth settings don't have run-time configurations:
DefaultDepth depth
specifies which color depth the server should use by default. The −depth command line option can be used to override this. If neither is specified, the default depth is driver−specific, but in most cases is 8.
DefaultFbBpp bpp
specifies which framebuffer layout to use by default. The −fbbpp command line option can be used to override this. In most cases the driver will chose the best default value for this. The only case where there is even a choice in this value is for depth 24, where some hardware supports both a packed 24 bit framebuffer layout and a sparse 32 bit framebuffer layout.
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I've looked into this and although what I found didn't solve my problem, it answered my question. The simple solution is to build a xorg.conf file
Xorg :1 -configure
this produces an xorg.conf.new file. You can then modify it adding
Section "Screen"
...
DefaultDepth 24
...
EndSection
Then you place that file in /etc/X11/
or similar
This worked in so far as it made the color depth 24 but it seems my issue was an incorrect driver or something of that sort.
But that's not user mode. Glad you figured it out though. – lornix – 2011-09-17T12:00:09.860