Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 09 April 2009 03:22:23 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
something similar on my system.
That's it. It is the same gray "hash" that appears as the
background if you were to start X using xorgcfg to self generate an
xorg-config.
It's obviously something one can learn to live with (I work a lot
with xterms); just irritating that I had it under control a while
back, and suddenly it reappears. I'm guessing that Alan McKinnon
has it right, and that xorg has a minor bug; that the -br parameter
no longer works.
X -br still works just fine, I use it here and that horrific
cross-hatch doesn't show up.
The OP's complaint turns out to be is the xterm scrollbar, by default
it looks just like that.
Well..... in an effort to prove to myself that I haven't gone nuts, I
brought up my "maintenance OS" - which is simply a copy of the primary
OS on another partition. I copied it there immediately prior to the xorg
update. I opened up an xterm (Paul Hartman, I've set a default in
fluxbox that provides a scrollbar on every xterm - but thanks for your
thought that I could turn it off") and there were the nice, civilized
"dots" that I've seen for years; NOT the cross-hatch that we all see now.
I then shut down X and started up X from a user who does not have an
.xinitrc - thereby bringing up basic XDM - and there was the nice,
"dots" background; NOT the jagged background that I see if I bring up that
user post-xorg-update.
So I figured that I should take a snapshot of the old xterm and post it
next to yesterday's posting and allow folks an a:b comparison. But YIKES
- when I looked at the photo on the updated box, I again saw the
cross-hatch. And if I look carefully, I see the "dots" beneath the
"cross-hatch"!?!
So I'm now thinking that -br still works; and that there is some sort of
minuscule frequency/refresh/other difference between the old and new
xorg-server that is accounting for this jagged appearance on top of the
dots.
