[Xorg] Get rid of checkerboard
Egbert Eich
eich at pdx.freedesktop.org
Tue Aug 3 07:06:45 PDT 2004
Soeren Sandmann writes:
> Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> writes:
>
> > Around 22 o'clock on Aug 2, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> >
> > > Would anyone object if I commit a patch to remove the initial
> > > checkerboard pattern you see between the time the X server starts up
> > > and the ?dm starts drawing the background?
> >
> > There's already a command line option to select a black background. Do
> > you intend something different? Or do you just want that to be the
> > default?
>
> Yeah just making that the default, and add a -nobr option that will
> get the checkerboard.
>
X is usually started from a script (like startx) or from a display manager
which should come with a config file where the Xserver command line can be
specified. So this can easily be fixed there.
It is started as a stand alon binary mostly for debugging purposes, for this
I prefer the checkerboard.
Egbert.
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