>>On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Bjarne =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E4ckstr=F6m?= wrote:
>>Also worth noting (I'm really confused as to who has which system now),
>>only some systems will even boot in color.  The IIsi is one of the few,
>>as I understand it.  Based on a previous post, however, X-Windows won't
>>run except in b/w (crashes) even on the IIsi.  The IIci won't even boot.

--Well, my IIci boots fine in 8-bit. X on the other hand, tries to start
up, and then gives up and dumps you back in the shell with some error that
disappears to fast for me to read, and I haven't tried logging it. All of
which is fine with me - at least it doesn't crash when you forget to change
to Black and White.

Still, X isn't to bad on the IIci speed wise. I've yet to swap back to the
ADB kernel, and plug the drive into my LCIII and see if X works on that -
but even so, I gather it's aimed at B&W again.

Good program to help with changing to B&W for unix, and staying 8-bit for
everything else - get a shareware program called "Color Coordinator" - you
set up predefined programs (inc finder) in it, and tell it what colour
depth they run in, then as you run (or switch to) that application, it
changes the color depth.

So, for example, I run finder in 8 bit, Photoshop etc in 16-bit, and
Booter1.9 in 1 bit! And I never have to touch the monitors control panel.
Anyway - could be a handy tip if your'e sick of changing the colours to and
fro all the time!

John.

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