Grey checkered background before kdm

[jewsofeast]

Hi,

I need to add -noretro to xorg invocation, a grey checkerboard appears before kdm start, i understand that that is the default background of xdm. i want to make it black, can someone help.

Best,

Dave

[J65nko]

$ xsetroot -solid black

will set the background to solid black. Don't ask where to put it in your case, because I don't know

[BSDfan666]

This "grey checkered background" is called the root weave, it is configured by the X server.. not the window manager.

Upstream Xorg developers have mostly decided to transition to a "black root window" instead of the classic weave, but OpenBSD's xenocara retains this.

For gradient images, they are plenty of ports capable of setting a image.. xsetroot can be used from your .xinitrc/.xsession files to configure a solid colour, read the man page.

[jewsofeast]

Originally Posted by J65nko

$ xsetroot -solid black

will set the background to solid black. Don't ask where to put it in your case, because I don't know

I need to add

xsetroot -solid black

to a config file that invokes X.

I've several of those in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession and ~/.xinitrc, ~/.xsession. I tried in every config file but it didn't work.

Best,

Dave

[J65nko]

xsetroot -solid black is a program/executable

$ ls -l $(which xsetroot)  
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  15656 Mar 26  2010 /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot

So it is not an configuration option in a config file. It needs to be run/executed.

I use startx, a shell script, which invokes /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

$ ls -l $(which startx)
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4517 Mar 26  2010 /usr/X11R6/bin/startx

$ ls -l /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc                                 
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1057 Jan 10 10:01 /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

I had to add the xsetroot command to this xinitrc script.

I never used xdm, but the X11 directory in /etc has an xdm directory

$ ls -l /etc/X11/                                              
total 40
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  1024 Apr  5  2010 app-defaults
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Apr  5  2010 fs
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Apr  5  2010 twm
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   512 Apr  5  2010 xdm
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Apr  5  2010 xinit
drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel   512 Mar 26  2010 xkb
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  4477 Apr  9  2010 xorg.conf
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Apr  5  2010 xsm

You could have a look there

[jewsofeast]

Originally Posted by J65nko

xsetroot -solid black is a program/executable

$ ls -l $(which xsetroot)  
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  15656 Mar 26  2010 /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot

So it is not an configuration option in a config file. It needs to be run/executed.

I use startx, a shell script, which invokes /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

$ ls -l $(which startx)
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4517 Mar 26  2010 /usr/X11R6/bin/startx

$ ls -l /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc                                 
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1057 Jan 10 10:01 /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

I had to add the xsetroot command to this xinitrc script.

I never used xdm, but the X11 directory in /etc has an xdm directory

$ ls -l /etc/X11/                                              
total 40
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  1024 Apr  5  2010 app-defaults
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Apr  5  2010 fs
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Apr  5  2010 twm
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   512 Apr  5  2010 xdm
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Apr  5  2010 xinit
drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel   512 Mar 26  2010 xkb
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  4477 Apr  9  2010 xorg.conf
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Apr  5  2010 xsm

You could have a look there

Hi,

This is what I got -

NBSD# ls -l $(which xsetroot)
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  19589 Nov  6 21:14 /usr/X11R7/bin/xsetroot

ls -l $(which startx)
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4566 Nov  6 21:14 /usr/X11R7/bin/startx

NBSD# ls -l /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  715 Nov  6 21:14 /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

NBSD# ls -l /etc/X11/xdm
total 60
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   385 Nov  6 21:14 GiveConsole
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   244 Nov  6 21:14 TakeConsole
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  3597 Nov  6 21:14 Xaccess
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   187 Nov  6 21:14 Xreset
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  2401 Nov  6 21:14 Xresources
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    11 Nov  6 21:14 Xservers -> Xservers.ws
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   377 Nov  6 21:14 Xservers.fs
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   494 Nov  6 21:14 Xservers.ws
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1031 Nov  6 21:14 Xsession
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   171 Jan  7 01:26 Xsetup_0
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   165 Jan  6 18:07 Xsetup_0~
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   185 Nov  6 21:14 Xstartup
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   303 Nov  6 21:14 Xwilling
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1350 Nov  6 21:14 xdm-config

I gave examples from NetBSD, I have Net, Open & DragonFly. I have this issue with NetBSD and OpenBSD. I didnt install xdm in DragonFly and I dont get that in there.

Now I need to append '/usr/X11R7/bin/startx', let me know if thats the one.

If you can could you please confirm -

Xorg -configure -noretro

I guess this wont load the ckerboard.

Best,

Dave