On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 17:26, Nicolò Wojewoda wrote: > > You know, when you start X you have a couple of seconds when there's a > cross (or a wristwatch) upon a grey/black screen, and then after that > the display manager is loaded (with its background). I'd like to choose > the background to substitute that grey/black screen, so that passing > from console to X would mean passing from console to the background I > choose, without grey screens in the middle.
You can start the X server with a black background with the -br command line option. Choosing a background is a client side issue then. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer

