[PATCH] bug #53345 - startkde

[Daniel Stone]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 08:35:16PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> the first patch does what the report log suggests, i think it is a good
> idea.
> 
> the second patch is unrelated, but as i was already at it ...
> theoretically it could make the background appear earlier if the "xset
> fp"s (particularily rehash) take some some - somebody can provide hard
> numbers for this?

> +# 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.
> +test "$XDM_MANAGED" || xsetroot -solid "#C0C0C0"

As an aside, Red Hat do this off the bat, and I've been thinking about similar
functionality for Debian. Why do we test for $XDM_MANAGED? There's no guarantee
a ?dm will set the background.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel at fooishbar.org>
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"Configurability is always the best choice when it's pretty simple to implement"
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