From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 13 11:53:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD97116A41C for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:53:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) Received: from mail.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [193.2.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 633ED43D48 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:53:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) Received: from localhost (mail.ijs.si [193.2.4.66]) by patsy.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7489017B823; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:53:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from patsy.ijs.si ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (patsy.ijs.si [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00355-01-6; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:53:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from idefix.ijs.si (idefix.ijs.si [193.2.4.33]) by patsy.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC6917B899; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:53:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.ijs.si (localhost.ijs.si [127.0.0.1]) by idefix.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC245C0A; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:53:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Dejan Lesjak To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:53:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050612205547.oewsb1smhjbb408c@webmail.reallm.com> In-Reply-To: <20050612205547.oewsb1smhjbb408c@webmail.reallm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506131353.39948.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ijs.si Cc: Subject: Re: Changing the X boot screen X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:53:45 -0000 On Monday 13 of June 2005 03:55, Bryan Maynard wrote: > Hey I was just wondering if there is any way to change the background when > X boots. I am running KDE and using KDM. I'm not sure if this is an X11 > issue for a KDM one. I'd like to have a black background instead of the > cross pattern. Kind of both :) It's a question of how KDM starts X. You should have a file /usr/local/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and in there is a command to start X server in (at least here) [X-:*-Core] section which looks here somewhat like this: [X-:*-Core] AllowNullPasswd=true AllowRootLogin=true AllowShutdown=All NoPassEnable=false NoPassUsers= ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp ServerCmd=/usr/X11R6/bin/X Now, running 'X -help' will show you interesting arguments you can specify to X. The one that matters here is -br create root window with black background So you need to put that argument at the end of ServerCmd or ServerArgsLocal line (I only tried ServerCmd one, but it probably shouldn't make a difference). Dejan