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RE: Xfree86 Backgrounds
- To: "James Moger" <jamesm at transonic dot com>
- Subject: RE: Xfree86 Backgrounds
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:56:24 -0400
- Cc: "cygx" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
The background is changed by the helper program 'xsetroot'.
You can pass xsetroot any number of options, the only one of which I know is
the one that I used in startxwin.bat:
xsetroot -solid aquamarine4
Read the man page for more information.
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Moger [mailto:jamesm@transonic.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 10:46 AM
> To: huntharo@msu.edu
> Subject: Xfree86 Backgrounds
>
>
> I read in your change logs that you changed the cygwin xfree86 package to
> not display the hatched background on startup. You mentioned that you
> replaced the hatched background with a solid white. I would like
> to do the
> same thing - but as a solid black. I am getting rather lost in
> the code. I
> would think that it would be a configuration option somewhere,
> but have had
> no luck finding it. I see lots of code in XAA about solid fill
> rectangles,
> but I can not figure out how to use them. Can you make any suggestions on
> where to look/how tp procede to eliminate the hatched background?
>
> - James
>