On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 05:09:13PM -0600, joshua stein wrote: > Is anyone seriously finding video/Xorg bugs through the default X > stipple pattern anymore? Xorg changed the default to draw a black > background a while ago (with stipple enabled using the -retro flag), > but we have this local change that reverted it while adding a silly > -retard flag in order to show the black background. > > I think we can finally stop partying like it's 1989 (vax is dead, > after all) and have X show a solid black background by default.
Reviving this thread because everyone likes to party like it's 1989^W^W^W^Wthe smell of a sunday morning bikeshed.... From what i understand, we default to the -retro mode, that option is #ifndef'ed out, but Xserver(1) still mentions it. We instead provide (since xserver 1.6.4, 8 years ago) an undocumented -retard option which is supposed to have the default 'black background' behaviour. And then, there's -br flag. So.. should we fix the code (from what i understood in the thread, there was opposition) or the manpage ? Or document (where?) that one can use xsetroot -solid in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 to paint the default xdm/X background to its own bikeshed color ?
