VNC with reduced color depth

[Homer]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Homer <fsunoles at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kubuntu 10.04
>
> I want to establish a connection with VNC to :0 using a reduced color
> depth.  My connections will be via modems, so I'm trying to speed
> things up as much as possible.  The screen resolution of the remote
> machines is set to 800x600 and I'd like my VNC connection to be at a
> color depth of 8 or 16.  I don't want to set the color depth on the
> remote machines that low as I sometimes sit in front of them.  Closest
> I've found so far is tightvnc, but that doesn't allow connections to
> :0.

Took me a couple of days to figure out a solution.  vncviewer has an
option called -depth that by the description is exactly what I am
after.  I was never able to get it to work.  There is another option,
-bgr233, that sets the color depth to 8-bit.  That works.  Time to
move on...