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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@arg1.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and X-Windows.
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 12:55:55 +0100
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Sue Blake wrote:
> As far as how many colours... I'm still working on that :-)
> Typing 'startx bpp 16' or something like that used to work (?)

To be more precise:

startx -- -bpp 16