Re: ugly x background when starting kdm

2002-09-27 Thread Peter Clark
Quoting John Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I do know that there are patches available to remove this, but this would > mean getting the proper version of source code to apply the patch to, patch > it and re-compile and install. Not a difficult task, even for a > non-programmer, but a lot to down-loa

Re: ugly x background when starting kdm

2002-09-27 Thread John Gay
I've heard the proper explaination before on the Xpert list. I'm no programmer either but the basic idea is that this is an extremely low-level test of the X-Server. The reason for the horrible pattern it that it can be wrapped evenly on any bit boundary. The usefullness is when you are program

Re: ugly x background when starting kdm

2002-09-26 Thread Michael Spanier
Am Donnerstag, 26. September 2002 11:57 schrieb Bastiaan Naber: > Every time I start my computer I am anoyed with this problem but > have not been able to get rid of it. So please help me. > > When kdm starts I first get this very ugle black and white dots as > a background after which the login bo

Re: ugly x background when starting kdm

2002-09-26 Thread Bastiaan Naber
Thanks all for you reply's. As none of the things I tryed after your messages works and as some of you say it is compiled in Xfree. This is really sad. I made the transition to linux 2 years ago an I almost never touch any windows boxes anymore since one of the things I really like about linux is

Re: ugly x background when starting kdm

2002-09-26 Thread David Pashley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 September 2002 10:57 am, Bastiaan Naber wrote: > Every time I start my computer I am anoyed with this problem but > have not been able to get rid of it. So please help me. > > When kdm starts I first get this very ugle black and white do

Re: ugly x background when starting kdm

2002-09-26 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:57, Bastiaan Naber wrote: > Every time I start my computer I am anoyed with this problem but > have not been able to get rid of it. So please help me. > > When kdm starts I first get this very ugle black and white dots as > a background after which the login box comes up

ugly x background when starting kdm

2002-09-26 Thread Bastiaan Naber
Every time I start my computer I am anoyed with this problem but have not been able to get rid of it. So please help me. When kdm starts I first get this very ugle black and white dots as a background after which the login box comes up and after that the debian background appears. I would like to