On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 10:43:50AM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote:
> 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 ?
>
xmd(1) already points to Xsetup_0:
DisplayManager.DISPLAY.setup
This specifies a program which is run (as root) before offering
the Login window. This may be used to change the appearance of
the screen around the Login window or to put up other windows
(e.g., you may want to run xconsole here). By default, no
program is run. The conventional name for a file used here is
Xsetup. See the section Setup Program.
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