Re: [LI] Colour depth and VRAM

[C Hanish Menon <hanish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

> 
> AND can the memory thus freed be used for storing the
> workspaces/frames/textures in VRAM rather than having to swap that info
> into Extended RAM or SWAP?
> 

Depends on how the graphic programs are written (In this case the XServers, I
haven't looked into the XServer code so no idea). However many games do
precisely this.

> Another question that went unnoticed. How to set the number of virtual
> terminals/screens in FVWM/Gnome/KDE etc etc???
> 

Why don't you try the control programs for these desktops.

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Keep :-)
HanishKVC
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