Bug 70168 – Xsetup_0 enhancement for plain xdm

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Eric Brown 2004-11-05 07:40:24 UTC]

By default, XDM is rather ugly: it doesn't even have a backgrond color set, so instead you see those ugly gray lines.

One solution is to add this line to the /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 right under "echo sessions: $sessions":

/usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot -solid black

xsetroot is part of xorg-x11, and with this line, xdm has a plain black background and looks much better.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-02-05 15:56:13 UTC]

Hi,

We're trying to provide this stuff more as upstream intended. So please file this bug at bugs.freedesktop.org and post the URL here, so we can track its progress with x.org.

Thanks.

[Comment 2 Eric Brown 2005-02-05 16:52:03 UTC]

Here's the bug on freedesktop.org:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2478

I don't really think they're going to take the bug seriously though, not to mention the fact that Gentoo already puts modification in Xsetup_0 anyway.  In fact, my Xsetup_0 file even has entries for KDM!  If the kde herd can have access to default settings for a display manager here, why can't we just put in a default black background?

[Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-02-05 17:15:40 UTC]

See bug #80225.

[Comment 4 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2006-03-31 19:20:09 UTC]

Marking upstream. I'd like to do something about it upstream.