philf@med-isg.stanford.edu (Phil Fernandez) (04/25/88)
I am in the process of bringing up X.V11R2 on my Sun 3/60-cg4. I have been having some "problems" with the root window color. When the X server starts, it paints a grey cross-hatched window -- the standard root, but grey. I have been trying to make it a blue tint instead, like I had with X10. I have tried the "-bp" and "-wp" parameters on the Xsun invocation, and have been trying to use xsetroot to effect the change. In no case can I get the root window color to change, except with the xsetroot "-solid" option, which works just fine to set any solid background color. Moreover, the specification of "-grey" or "-gray" to xsetroot causes an immediate core dump of the server. Can anyone give me a clue about all of this? I tried to search back comp.windows.x messages for a mention of this, and didn't see one. Thanks... Phil Fernandez Stanford University Medical School philf@med-isg.stanford.edu
lori@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Lori Cook) (04/27/88)
To get a blue tinted background with a stipple pattern, try specifying a '-fg' or '-bg' option with the '-grey' or '-gray'. As to why xsetroot core dumps on a Sun when '-grey' or '-gray' is specified, hopefully someone else can help you on that. Lori A. Cook Corvallis Workstation Operation Hewlett-Packard Company Corvallis, Oregon.