Command line (or otherwise) to display my monitor color depth in use

[mladen.adamovic@gmail.com]

Any idea?

[phidia]

What GPU are you running? You can try

xrandr --help

and

xrandr man

[tgalati4]

You can also look through the log file to see what color depth was selected:

tgalati4@Mint14-Extensa ~ $ grep -i -3 Color /var/log/Xorg.0.log
"Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
[ 32.772] (==) intel(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
[ 32.772] (==) intel(0): RGB weight 888
[ 32.772] (==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[ 32.772] (--) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 965GM
[ 32.772] (**) intel(0): Relaxed fencing enabled
[ 32.772] (**) intel(0): Wait on SwapBuffers? enabled
--
[ 33.170] (II) intel(0): Max Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 30 vert.: 19
[ 33.170] (II) intel(0): Gamma: 2.20
[ 33.170] (II) intel(0): No DPMS capabilities specified
[ 33.170] (II) intel(0): Supported color encodings: RGB 4:4:4 YCrCb 4:4:4
[ 33.170] (II) intel(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode
[ 33.170] (II) intel(0): redX: 0.575 redY: 0.335 greenX: 0.315 greenY: 0.550
[ 33.170] (II) intel(0): blueX: 0.155 blueY: 0.135 whiteX: 0.313 whiteY: 0.329

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[slickymaster]

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