VNC

[Isaac Shaeffer]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:19:23 -0800
Mitch Patenaude <mrp at sonic.net> wrote:

> 
> On Monday, January 28, 2002, at 02:28 , Warren Raquel wrote:
> 
> > Yes. I said that I set it to 24.
> > vncserver -depth 24
> 
> Okay... how about on the client side.... When you start the windoze 
> vncviewer, click on the options buttion, and make sure the option 
> "Restrict pixels to 8-bit" isn't checked.
> 
> I also vaguely remember that some program  (maybe vncserver) although 
> the option was documented as '-depth', was actually '-bpp'.. but that 
> could have been some Solaris app...   Since I only use VNC for remote 
> administration of windows boxen, I always keep the servers set at 
> 8--bit, so I can't test it here.
> 
>    -- Mitch
> 
> 

you can also edit the vncserver file itself. Its just a perlscript front end to the Binary Xvnc.

change $depth = 8; to $depth = 24;