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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi Steven,

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:24:08 +1300
3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Ron Clarke wrote:
> >
> > I have the Xvesa from DeliLinux and I have not been able
> > to make it work properly. I can get a speckled screen with 
> > an X cursor, but no window manager, so there is one (vital !) 
> > step I have not remembered.
> 
> ---------------------------------
> xinit -- Xvesa -screen 800x600x16
> ---------------------------------
> That should start whatever you have in ~/.xinitrc
 
   Actually, it doesn't. It just gives a list of CL parameters that don't make
much too sense to me.

   However, in my haste to try it out, I misstyped the above as:

          xinit 00  Xvesa -screen 800x600x16
     two zeros -^^

and raised icewm in 16 colours !   And could not raise any more than 16 
colours,
in spite of typing 800x600x32 x256 x32k etc..

   So, it does work.   But why ?

Regards,
         Ron

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Ron Clarke 
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