Redhat produced a patched to remove the ugly hatch pattern that X shows when it starts in 2002. This altered the pattern to be plain black in the X server source. Gentoo has "v2" of this patch applies which seems to add -br to the default X command in startx and it does the same job if you use startx. However, GDM doesn't use startx and the pattern still appears in all its ugly ugly ugly uglyness. Adding -br to the default server in gdm.conf fixes this. On http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2682311.html it is implied that this is also the case with KDM, though I havn't checked because I don't use it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Start gdm: `gdm` Observe. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.13-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre6 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" LANG="en_GB" LC_ALL="en_GB" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr crypt curl dbus dvd dvdr eds emboss encode fam firefox foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gstreamer gtk2 hal imlib jpeg libg++ libwww lm_sensors mikmod mmx mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn ncurses new-login nfs nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pdflib perl pic png python quicktime readline samba spell sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts v4l2 vorbis win32codecs xinerama xml2 xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
We try to stick to upstream as much as possible. After discussion on IRC, we have decided against this. If you feel strongly for this, you could try speaking with upstream about possibly including this there.
