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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Fw: [ale] that stippled gray X background
From:       "Casey Allen Shobe" <cshobe () softhome ! net>
Date:       2001-07-01 11:50:04
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How about making an addition to KDE that sets the background at X startup?

- Casey

----- Original Message -----
From: <hirsch@zapmedia.com>
To: "John Mills" <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: <hirsch@zapmedia.com>; <ale@ale.org>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] that stippled gray X background


> John Mills writes:
>  > Michael -
>  >
>  > At what point in the startup did you run 'xsetroot'?
>  > Which window manager are you using?
>
> I actually have a C++ program that starts X, then sets the background,
> cursor, etc.  I always get a little flash of Grey.  I don't use xinit,
> or anything on this.
>
> I finally found the place where the background is hard coded into the
> Server.  I ended up using a hex editor (emacs) to just edit it to all
> black.  It worked great.
>
> I really don't understand why there isn't an option to set the
> background at startup.  Everything I've seen sets the background after
> the grey is drawn.
>
> Thanks for everyones' suggestions,
>
> --michael
>
>  >
>  > On Thu, 28 June 2001, hirsch@zapmedia.com wrote:
>  >
>  > > Does anyone know their way around the XFree X server?  I'm trying to
>  > > replace the ugly default X background with something nicer (like,
say,
>  > > solid black).  I know how to set the background after X starts,
either
>  > > with xsetroot or with an xlib call, but I still see the stippled
>  > > background first.  I haven't found a run time parameter.
>  >
>  > It should not be necessary to go to the source code to set a resource
for X11. Perhaps you could give a bit more detail as to what you want and
what you are having to do.
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  >  John Mills
>
>
>
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