Colour maps

[Damien Elmes]

Jeremy <jepri at webone.com.au> writes:

> For those games that need 16 or 8 bit colour depth on the X server.  Is there
> any tricky way to get them to run, maybe using Xnest or something?  I can't
> believe I need to edit my Xconfig to play the game.

Yes, xnest serves that purpose well.

> Failing that could someone rattle off the right way to start an X server on
> another 'vterm', say vt8?

Sure. Easiest to create another config file, and then

startx -- :1

I think you place the arg to the alternative config file after the '--' X -help
for more.

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