Re: Pager & color depth [Re: startup look/feel]
Maury Merkin (merkin@his.com)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 12:19:23 +0000
David Mihm wrote:
> [testing...new list addie...test...test...is this thing on?]
> On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Maury Merkin wrote:
> !
> ! First, how do I get from one "desk" to another? (Hey, I know that sounds
> ! simple, but I can't figger it out.) I suppose I could put 4 pagers on my
> ! wharf (would that work?) but I'd rather not.
>
> This depends on how you have the pager setup. Basically, the
> pager is a desk with 'x' number of views of that desk. The default AS
> install has 4 desks with 4 views per desk - this is placed in the lower
> left hand corner and labeled as 'Work', 'WWW', 'Mail' and 'Games'. To
> switch between desks, simply click either on the desks title bar to move
> to that desk while staying in the same positional you are currently in; or
> click on the view to switch to that desks view window.
> The configuration files that are associated with setting up the
> pager are:
>
> base#.bpp -
> DeskTopSize 2x2 <-- 2 views over 2 views (total 4 views)
> DeskTopScale 32 <-- smaller makes pager bigger; I think it's
> associated with a scale of the '*PagerFont'
> autoexec -
> Module "I" Pager 0 3 <-- '0' is desk to start on; '3' is number
> of pagers (total of 4). This line
> should be under both 'Function
> "InitFunction"' and 'Function
> "RestartFunction"'
> pager -
> *Pager... <-- are general settings
> *WPager.. <-- are desk0 settings
> *XPager.. <-- are desk1 settings
> *YPager.. <-- are desk2 settings
> *ZPager.. <-- are desk3 settings
>
> Some notes: if you have the pager started in the wharf, omit the
> entries in the autoexec.file. having multiple pagers in the wharf, one
> for each desk, is possible; obviously, the more views you have, the harder
> it will be too see (unless you use zwharf). Substituting the '_Pager'
> (where '_' is '','W','X','Y', or 'Z') in each entry of the wharf is how
> multiple wharfs can be swallowed, using this line:
> *Wharf Pager - SwallowModule "Pager" Pager 0 0 <-- see abv for #'s
>
> I think that's it. :)
Well it may not be "it" but it sure was plenty. :-)
Okay. I finally settled on 4 pagers on my wharf. It works fine. Thanks.
> ! Second, can I do anything to change my color depth? (It's now 16 but I'd
> ! like to see if raising it to 24 can solve a peculiar problem that has just
> ! become apparent.)
>
> Heh, depends on what X Server you're running. A way to get around
> this is to simply invoke 'startx -bpp <colordepth>', this works for me -
me too.
> some have said 'startx -- -bpp <colordepth>', but that doesn't work for
> me.
me either.
> The best way to find out is to do a 'man XF86Config' or 'man Xaccel'.
Yeah, I should have told you I'm using XFree86.
I can't believe it but my set up is now working just as I had originally
envisioned it. Thanks for your patient help.
Maury