Bug#231291: xserver-xfree86: avoid that grey/black loading screen

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 17:26, Nicolò Wojewoda wrote:
> 
> You know, when you start X you have a couple of seconds when there's a
> cross (or a wristwatch) upon a grey/black screen, and then after that
> the display manager is loaded (with its background). I'd like to choose
> the background to substitute that grey/black screen, so that passing
> from console to X would mean passing from console to the background I
> choose, without grey screens in the middle.

You can start the X server with a black background with the -br command
line option. Choosing a background is a client side issue then.


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