Its not gray, its a pattern that repeats over the desktop.
It just helps to determine the difference between a black screen
that does not sync or not display due to misc reasons
and a working grafics adapter that is able to launch
a window manager soon. call it a feature. ;-)
here is the pattern:
...X
.X..
..X.
X...
i have no idea where that code rsides, but i have seen
that some folks have disabled that for their purposes.
lets hope someone can give you a better help in that case.
the code should be not nothing more than just 1 to 5 lines.
-Alex.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans-Peter Jansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 13:56
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Xpert]gray bitmap on startup
>
>
> Hi *,
>
> since I'm using XFree86 (about 5 years now mostly successful,
> thanks),
> I ask myself this question:
> What is the gray bitmap on startup good for, and where did it
> come from?
>
> I would like to try to patch my XFree to get rid of it (if it
> is possible
> at all), so any hints, where to start on this is highly appreciated.
>
> current: 4.1.0/SuSE 7.3/mga and CVS from sunday, where I
> started digging
> after a successful build, but this package is _really_ huge. I started
> analysing xsetroot -gray, and searched for similar X-calls under
> xc/programs/Xserver, but failed to find suspicous calls?
>
> I would be really happy, if some kind mind would shed some
> light on this.
>
> TIA,
> Hans-Peter
>
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