Re: [seul-edu] Re: What we're doing

[Dan Kolb <dankolb@ox.compsoc.net>]

Ray Olszewski wrote:
> 
> At 10:22 PM 6/12/00 +0100, Dan Kolb wrote:
> ...
> >Is there any way of replacing the 'standard' X cross-patch background
> >with something a little less Moired, or will that require fiddling with
> >the source code for X?
> 
> "xsetroot -bg somecolor" is one way to do it, replacing "somecolor" with a
> legal name (I like darkblue).

Sort of there - if I run it from console with -display :1 it doesn't
work[0]. If I run an xterm and do it from there, it works until I exit
xterm.
I'd like it so as soon as you load up X it will change the background to
blue. Maybe if I ran it from a script rather than each command
individually from the console?

[0] The X server I was playing with was called :1, before anyone
complains that the default X server is at :0

Dan
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