Well, as things turnout, Andrew, the initial black screen with an X with a white background can be implemented with, of all things, the startx command, i.e.:I believe the black background is actually the result of an X patch - I'm not at my Gentoo machine right now, but I think the name is something like stupid-*-die-die-die.patch.
Heh. That's why I happened to notice it.
startx -- -br
It never even occured to me that an answer might be found going in that direction but it works every time.
Many thanks for having tried to be helpful.
Best regards.
John Lowell
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