[ale] that stippled gray X background

[timball at tux.org (Timothy Ball)]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:36:19PM -0400, hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:
> Timothy Ball writes:
>  > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:31:54AM -0400, hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:
>  > > If y'all have any pointers I'd love to hear them.
>  > 
>  > Uhhh... why not put xsetroot -solid black at the top of xinit? (or
>  > Xsessions if you use xdm). No need to hack source when the tool is so
>  > simple...
> 
> I don't mind it on my workstation.  I'm a big boy and I can deal with
> it.  But I'm building a consumer product, not a workstation.  The
> visible grey screen is a UI bug that I'd like to fix.  X should start
> up smoothly into my UI.  The fact that the user sees a grey screen
> before my UI appears is not suitable for a consumer product.

If you put it at the top of xinit it should start up pretty much
immediately... otherwise do it in X code right before X starts up
xinit...

--timball

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