Hello, I thought that it will set the background color, and this will be it.
I added an xterm in there like so (this is in a file run.sh and I am running this shell script with (DISPLAY=:1 sh run.sh) xsetroot -solid "#006060" xterm -geometry +20+40 With this the background color turns to a blue then the background goes black. But the xterm is seen, and if I exit xterm, the session ends. But if I do this (notice the ampersand at the end of the xsetroot line) xsetroot -solid "#006060" & xterm -geometry +20+40 the background color stays, and is not changed to black as it is the case with the above example. Regards, Riza On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 11:39 AM Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 13:08:54 +0300 Riza Dindir <riza.din...@gmail.com> said: > > > Hello All, > > > > I want to use Xephyr to test out an x application. > > > > For starters I wanted to learn how to use Xephyr. Here is what I did. > > > > I started xephyr on display 1 like so (Xephyr :1 -screen 800x600). The > > window opened where the background is black. Then ran (DISPLAY=:1 > > xsetroot -solid white) to change the background color. But when I set > > the background to white, the background does not stay white. It > > changes to black within 1 second. > > > > Is this default behavior? Why can't I set the background color on a > > Xephyr window? > > because xsetroot is the only x client. it connects, sets root window bg color > to white, then disconnects. now the xserver has zero clients left. it resets > itself as from it's point of view the session ended. you can either ensure > another client is always running (almost all the time this is a window manager > at a minimum) until the session ends, or you can try the -noreset option to > Xephyr > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com >
