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Re: X improbements
by Justin on Monday 22/Oct/2001, @16:39

'kdmdesktop' is the program that loads the kdm background. Unfortunately, like all KDE apps, it takes a day and a half to startup. Maybe the kdm background loader could be the nice job of a non-KDE/Qt app.

I believe there is a way to tell X what to use as the initial background (like instead of that gray checkered thing). You could just make it a nice shade of blue instead. Then a fraction of a second later the background should load.

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Re: X improbements
by Ingo Klöcker on Tuesday 23/Oct/2001, @09:21

This is from the startkde script (which is executed by kdm to start KDE):
<quote>
# Set the background to plain grey.
# The standard X background is nasty, causing moire effects and exploding
# people's heads. We use colours from the standard KDE palette for those with
# palettised displays.

xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr -solid '#C0C0C0'
</quote>

So all you have to do is change the grey color to the color of the kdm background or the color of the user's background. If you use an image as background then using the -bitmap option instead of the -solid option should help. Unfortunately xsetroot can't set a gradient background.

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