Display's background colour

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:46:38 -0700 Shaun Jackman <sjackman at gmail.com> babbled:

> Is it possible to change the X server's background colour using a
> command line option to the Xserver or perhaps using an Xresource? I'd
> like to do the equivalent of `xsetroot -solid white' but as soon as
> possible in the X server startup sequence, that is to say, before
> xinitrc runs.
> 
> Is there a comprehensive list of resources the X server itself uses?

X -br will make it black (ie blank) by default - and from there u can run
something to set the bg as black is a default "unlit" state this should be much
better - likely perfectly acceptable :)

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