From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 8 19:11:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1719E15353 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 19:11:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: from jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz (jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz [10.1.3.1]) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA18605; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 16:11:39 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA12510; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 16:11:38 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 16:11:38 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: cjclark@home.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: xdm Configuration Message-ID: <19991209161138.C12088@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> References: <199912090305.WAA58663@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199912090305.WAA58663@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>; from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com on Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:05:19PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:05:19PM -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote: [...] > The second problem is the root screen. It's that ugly dithered grey > that X defaults to. I'd just like to make that a simple solid > color... almost _any_ color. I would think that should be really > simple, but I have yet to track down where to slip in such a setting > in the xdm startup. Add a line in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 which reads: xsetroot -solid DarkSlateGrey Or you could add a picture: xv -root -quit -rmode 5 /usr/X11R6/etc/Background Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Everything in excess, moderation is for monks!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message