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  <H2><A NAME="9"></A>7. High Color and TrueColor </H2>
<p>Support for 16 and 24 bit truecolor is now supported.  Note that 24
bit color is really 32 bits per pixel.  Use the <code>-bpp</code> option when
starting the server.  Examples:
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	startx -- -bpp 32
	startx -- -bpp 16
	startx -- -bpp 16 -weight 555
	startx -- -bpp 16 -weight 565
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Note that many programs do not yet work properly with these modes.
Don't tell me.  Tell the authors unless they've already fixed it.
It's their fault...  :-)</p>
<p>Example problems:
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<dt><b>xv 3.00</b><dd><p>Works fine in 32 bpp and in 16 bpp with 24 bit images.
Has problems with colors in 8 bit images in 8 bpp mode.</p>
<dt><b>Mosaic 2.1</b><dd><p>Has problems with colormap in both 16 bpp and 32 bpp.
Newer versions of Mosaic such as 2.4 do work.</p>
<dt><b>mpeg_play</b><dd><p>Doesn't work at all in 16 bpp mode.  Works fine
24 bpp mode when compiled with -DRS6000 and when
run with ``<code>-dither color</code>''</p>
<dt><b>xpaint 2.1</b><dd><p>Works great in both modes but has a bug in the
color requester for the selection tool.
I think later versions may have fixed this.</p>
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