It looks like the gentoo xfree installation is configured to display a solid black root window instead of the default chequerboard-type pattern, no problem..but i quite like the "root weave" pattern and would like the option to turn it on. Why is the option hacked out, instead of setting the option -br in startx's defaultserverargs? It seems an option that at least one person (me!) found useful has been disabled! Can we remove the patch, and just add this option to startx instead? from man Xserver: -br sets the default root window to solid black instead of the standard root weave pattern. I believe the patch to blame is "0199_all_4.2.0-die-ugly-pattern-die-die-die.patch" how about substituting it with something like -defaultserverargs="-nolisten tcp" +defaultserverargs="-nolisten tcp -br" in xc/programs/xinit/startx.cpp
It would be helpful if you would post a patch to do so. We already have one patch to the startx.cpp or whatever it is, you can get the proper location from there.
Created attachment 26041 [details, diff] add -br to defaultserverargs Instead of hacking out the weave pattern, turn it off with -br argument.
Attached patch replaces the current die-die-die patch, does exactly the same thing but without hacking out any options. note that -br is a documented option in Xserver(1), the previous patch meant it didnt do anything.
*** Bug 44252 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in 4.3.0-r6.
