Bug#475654: x11-xserver-utils: [xsetroot] Changing background requires an application to be present

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

reassign 475654 openbox
thank you


Josef Spillner wrote:
> Am Samstag 12 April 2008 11:54:44 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
>   
>> Does starting the X server with -noreset avoid the problem? If so, this
>> is nothing specific to xsetroot. See the Xserver manpage about -noreset.
>>     
>
> Indeed, it helps.
> Still it wouldn't hurt to mention this fact in the manpage to xsetroot. It is 
> not obvious that the tools works like an application which attaches to and 
> detaches from the X server.
>
> And since this is the desired behaviour, the openbox startup script can never 
> work when using startx, so the bug should be reassigned/diverted to openbox.
>   

Right, I am reassigning then.

I'll let you or the openbox maintainer retitle as needed since I don't
know what openbox exactly does on startup.

Brice