From kde-core-devel Sat Sep 20 10:51:15 2003 From: Oswald Buddenhagen Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:51:15 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] bug #53345 - startkde X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=106405506531913 On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 11:25:29AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > +test "$XDM_MANAGED" || xsetroot -solid "#C0C0C0" > > As an aside, Red Hat do this off the bat, and I've been thinking about > similar functionality for Debian. Why do we test for $XDM_MANAGED? > There's no guarantee a ?dm will set the background. > indeed, coolo pointed this out to me recently. i'll address this by adding ,bgset to the variable if a background is guaranteed to be set. greetings -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.