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From: 880274d@aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Ralph Doncaster)
Subject: how do I detect a color framebuffer?
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.182435.8354@aucs.AcadiaU.ca>
Reply-To: 880274d@aucs.acadiau.ca (Ralph Doncaster)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 91 18:24:35 GMT
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I am doing some work in xview/X11, and I would like to be able to tell whether
my program is on a b/w or color display.  I know how to do it from a shell, bu
checking /dev for the device, but would like a cleaner way to do it.

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