Re: xfree question: funny monitor dependant patterns

[Staf Verhaegen <staf dot verhaegen at imec dot be>]

Neil Zanella wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have one last xfree question. Under Linux I have to choose the X server
> I am need so that it matches the hardware but under cygwin there is just
> one executable called XWin.exe. How does it know what video card I have?I
> I ask for the following reason: when I run the X server the background
> does not look as nice as the windows 2k background: let me explain: I am
> using SAMSUNG SyncMaster 700NF monitor (a flat CRT) with a 3dfx voodoo3
> card. I see some funny wave like patterns behind the gray pattern when
> I launch X Windows. These patterns are the same as those I see (and I
> assume other users would see them too) when I click Start, Shutdown
> (you need a fairly light background to see them and they only appear
> after clicking Shutdown). How can we keep the patterns from showing up?

The default X background is a wave pattern. Use xsetroot -grey to change it to
a grey color or xsetroot -solid with any colorname available in rgb.txt

Staf.

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