On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 05:34:31PM -0700, Yan Seiner wrote: > Keith Packard wrote: > > Yes, I'm cool with the black root background; nicer looking, conforming > > to the spec and everything. > > As a X user and occasional embedded programmer, might I suggest > something with a pattern? Even if it's a X logo in the center, or just > a shapeless blob, or a row and column of white pixels. Anything that is > recognizable as the X root window. > > I've displayed random areas of memory before because my hardware > framebuffer wasn't where I thought it was, and a black background was my > clue that something was really wrong.
So just select the old root weave with an option. I'm not entirely sure why 'debug my display driver and/or the X client initialisation process' should be the default, instead of 'look pretty until the other bits kick in'. Cheers, Daniel
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