[H-GEN] Virtual screen sizes in XFree86

[Paul Gearon]

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In article <20000906125249.A9911 at ozemail.com.au>, Stephen Thorne
<sjthorne at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> There are two solutions that are done... reletively easily and with
> approximately the same cludge factor that I'm aware of.
> 
> Use 2 XF86Config files, and invoke a different one for each user.

This is for a beginner's system.  That's not really an option.

> Have 2 colour depths, one with 1024, one with 768. i.e. 16/24/32 bit.

This could work... especially if I try 24/32 bit modes, since each of them
only use 24 bit colour anyway.

How do I change between depths though?  I've never done this, and I
haven't seen the docs which explain it.

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