From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7ElR-0006uc-Ba for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:03:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7MFxhTN031905; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:59:43 GMT Received: from mxsf24.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf24.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.224]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7MFxflE024147 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:59:42 GMT Received: from mxip03a.cluster1.charter.net (mxip03a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.133]) by mxsf24.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7MG0NiL024988 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:00:23 -0400 Received: from 66-168-56-228.dhcp.mdsn.wi.charter.com (HELO [192.168.169.198]) ([66.168.56.228]) by mxip03a.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 22 Aug 2005 12:00:24 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.96,131,1122868800"; d="scan'208"; a="1307388235:sNHT15593508" Message-ID: <4309F6A2.60203@blzj.com> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:00:34 -0500 From: Brett Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050615) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Passing options to X server References: <4309E352.3060103@anand.org> In-Reply-To: <4309E352.3060103@anand.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ae5f1cf8-c39e-458c-bb8f-4656fa481704 X-Archives-Hash: 567ca048dec26e599d1c33c43ea2a1e2 gentoo-wiki.com is a great resouce for these types of questions. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Changing_Gray_Startup_Background is what you are looking for. You will have to make multiple changes, as XDM and startx get thier server settings from differnt location. Regards, Brett Anand Buddhdev wrote: > Hi fellow Gentoo'ers, > > I hope you don't mind me asking questions that might sound somewhat > trivial to some of you. > > I would like to pass the -br option to the X server when it starts, so > that instead of displaying the default root weave pattern (which > flickers and gives me a dizzy feeling), I get a solid black background > in the root window. > > Where exactly is the correct place to put this -br option, so that > whether X is started by xdm, or manually with startx, this option is > honoured? > > Regards, > > Anand > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list