Changing the X boot screen

[Andrew J Caines]

Bryan,

> Hey I was just wondering if there is any way to change the background when X
> boots.

Using age old native X tools:

# xsetroot -solid black

Other graphical tools and tools distributed with window managers
and desktop managers have the ability to do the same thing, or to put pretty pictures and patterns in the root window, eg.

# xv -max -smooth -root -quit background.png
# bsetbg -tile brick.png
# wmsetbg -e photo.png

Add this to your .xinitrc or .xsession to have it run during startup.

> I am running KDE and using KDM. I'm not sure if this is an X11 issue for
> a KDM one.

It's an X root window pattern issue, however just about all window managers
and desktop managers have options to set root windows, though some make it
much more complicated than necessary.

> I know this may be a silly and simple question, I'm sorry. I just didn't know
> where else to ask. . . :-(

See X(7) in the EXAMPLES section, for example.


-Andrew-
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