Adam Jackson wrote: > On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 16:55 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:52 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: >> >>> You don't "ask for" the stipple though. It's the default. >> My point was that if you want to avoid the vintage X appearance, you'd >> likely start the X server with a black root window instead of the ugly >> stipple, and we could hook the 'disable the cursor' mode to the same >> option. Does that seem like a reasonable combination? I just can't >> imagine any credible desktop environment wanting either the stipple or >> the X cursor. >>> The protocol, by the way, does _not_ mandate the stipple. It says that >>> the initial contents are some unspecified two-color pattern made of >>> blackPixel and whitePixel. There is a weasel argument here that having >>> zero white pixels still counts as "two color" I guess. Even if you >>> don't like that argument, we are the keepers of the spec, there's no >>> reason we can't relax that requirement. >> Yes, I'm cool with the black root background; nicer looking, conforming >> to the spec and everything. > > Right then. -br is now the default. -retro gives you the old school > root window and cursor behavior. > > I see a bike shed and I want to paint it black... >
I have nothing against -br disabling the cursor, but keep it an option. to quote myself: > Please stop changing X default behaviour to match indiviual > developpers tastes. > There are enough options to confgure it to your taste. > X is a standard and most users expect the standard behaviour. Running the 'X' alone should produce the stippled background with the good old X cursor. -- Matthieu Herrb _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
