Get Rid of that Ugly Background

kwall@kurtwerks.com kwall
Mon May 17 11:41:02 PDT 2004


On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:08:54AM -0500, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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> kwall at kurtwerks.com spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> > For those of you who hate the ugly default X background, the black
> > and white crossweave net thing, here's a simple little patch that
> > fixes it and makes it solid black:
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> uh.. why not just 'xsetroot -solid black' as one of the first things in 
> .xinitrc?

If that's what you want to do. I wanted it to go away forever. xsetroot
is a (viable) workaround. The patch is a permanent fix.

Kurt
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