Re: Background question

2005-05-06 Thread M. Maas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 M. Maas wrote: Hello List, Between the boot splash and the graphical login manager, there is a screen with a black and white checkerd background and a big black X which is the mouse. Does anyone know how to change this background to something

Re: Background question

2005-05-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 06 May 2005 07:14, M. Maas wrote: M. Maas wrote: Hello List, Between the boot splash and the graphical login manager, there is a screen with a black and white checkerd background and a big black X which is the mouse. Does anyone know how to change this background to

Re: Background question

2005-05-06 Thread Mr Mike
On Friday 06 May 2005 01:44 am, Alan Chandler wrote: On Friday 06 May 2005 07:14, M. Maas wrote: M. Maas wrote: Hello List, Between the boot splash and the graphical login manager, there is a screen with a black and white checkerd background and a big black X which is the mouse.

Re: Background question

2005-05-06 Thread M. Maas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mr Mike wrote: Holy cow.. I just read this a couple of weeks ago and actually found the image... it's actually a 'x' on a light-gray background that is tiled on the screen I'm not sure what would happen if you were to mess with it..

Re: Background question

2005-05-06 Thread Wackojacko
You can't. I believe it is hardcoded in the depths of X. (Perhaps the newer X stuff from X.org might do something differently) Just installed X.org and can report that it doesn't solve this problem, sorry. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Background question

2005-05-06 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 06 May 2005 07:14, M. Maas wrote: Between the boot splash and the graphical login manager, there is a screen with a black and white checkerd background and a big black X which is the mouse. Does anyone know how to change this background to something prettier, as to make the

Re: Background question

2005-05-06 Thread M. Maas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wackojacko wrote: You can't. I believe it is hardcoded in the depths of X. (Perhaps the newer X stuff from X.org might do something differently) Just installed X.org and can report that it doesn't solve this problem, sorry. Wackojacko

Re: Background question

2005-05-06 Thread M. Maas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Braiden wrote: The proprietary nvidia drivers display the nvidia logo rather than the checked pattern. I suspect it simply draws an image on the screen before making it visible. Maybe if you set your X startup scripts to immediately

Re: Background question

2005-05-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
M. Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Between the boot splash and the graphical login manager, there is a screen with a black and white checkerd background and a big black X which is the mouse. There's a barely documented command line option on recent X servers. If you pass -br (short for black

Background question

2005-05-05 Thread M. Maas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello List, Between the boot splash and the graphical login manager, there is a screen with a black and white checkerd background and a big black X which is the mouse. Does anyone know how to change this background to something prettier, as to make