On 2002-07-02 10:44 +0000, Chris Wareham wrote:
> I simply alias startx to the following to get 16 bit colour depth:
>
>   startx -- -bpp 16
>
> I beleive that that the option has changed to -depth in XF86
> version 4.

I prefer having less things to type:

% grep Default /etc/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config
/etc/XF86Config:        DefaultColorDepth       16
/etc/X11/XF86Config:    DefaultDepth 16