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.

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