change the background color before splash-screen

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saiph

Beginner

Posts: 5

Tuesday, June 24th 2003, 3:48pm

change the background color before splash-screen

hi,

I'm tryng to change the background color of the
desktop (before that kde loads the splash-screen).

can anybody help me?
tnx

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Kenneth

Intermediate

Posts: 302

Wednesday, June 25th 2003, 2:30am

Do you mean the background at the login manager?

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saiph

Beginner

Posts: 5

Thursday, June 26th 2003, 11:23pm

no, i start X (and kde) when login is already done.
so i dont see any login menager but only the splash-screen
and this horrible background color of desktop.
i'd change it in white

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Kenneth

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Thursday, June 26th 2003, 11:57pm

Well, it's the same backdround as the login manager, so you might try changing it from there.

"Chopsticks require a person to use 64 muscles and 30 articulate movements simultaneously, which also acts in developing brain potential."

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saiph

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Friday, June 27th 2003, 9:29pm

no, before that there's another one, tust me: it's a very light blue background. i think maybe it's of X

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Rinse

Professional

Posts: 797

Saturday, June 28th 2003, 12:23am

it is X indeed.
It is changeable, but dunno how it is done.
Please look at the file KDEDIR/bin/startkde if it contains any information about changing the default background of the X rootwindow

Rinse

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probono

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Sunday, June 29th 2003, 4:35am

Are you talking about the black&white checkerboard? That's X indeed. I also would love to change it to plain black.

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Kenneth

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Sunday, June 29th 2003, 4:47am

X starts on boot in Mandrake and I never see it.

"Chopsticks require a person to use 64 muscles and 30 articulate movements simultaneously, which also acts in developing brain potential."

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Rinse

Professional

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Sunday, June 29th 2003, 9:51am

That means that mandrake changed the checker background into something decent.

Rinse

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saiph

Beginner

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Tuesday, July 1st 2003, 11:24am

i think discovered the solution!

kamilla# strace startkde

<- snip ->
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("/usr/local/sbin/xsetroot", 0xbffff770) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/usr/local/bin/xsetroot", 0xbffff770) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
<- snip ->

i suppose you need to change the binary

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tuxnet

Intermediate

Posts: 348

Tuesday, July 1st 2003, 11:28am

Quoted

Original von Kenneth

Well, it's the same backdround as the login manager, so you might try changing it from there.

What Distro do you use ? You should be able to change it in the kde control center under login management.

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saiph

Beginner

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Tuesday, July 1st 2003, 12:49pm

sorry it s not a binary (as i tought) but a simple script!

change here tho bgk:
test "$XDM_MANAGED" || bkg="-solid #ffffff"
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr $bkg

i use a slack 9.0, but that starts in init 3 so, of course, u can not change (for now) the bgcolor of X from the control center.

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tuxnet

Intermediate

Posts: 348

Tuesday, July 1st 2003, 1:46pm

Sorry I must be completely miss understanding your request then! So do you mean then the background colour while the system is booting before it gets to your login prompt? :?:

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utsutsu

Beginner

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Friday, July 4th 2003, 5:37am

I also want to change that blue color, I tried playing with control center and KDM but I still can not get it to change. I even set it to put a pic instead but no go. :cry: .

After you log on is that blue background that will come out and then the splash screen will kick in. Im nost sure what Im doing wrong, cause I can not get it to change either.

Im runing RedHat 9.

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tuxnet

Intermediate

Posts: 348

Friday, July 4th 2003, 9:15am

Well, I use Suse Linux instead of Redhat, but I can tell you if you browse in the /opt/kde3/share/wallpaper you should find the background image, and what I would do is rename the default image to something else and rename a nice one to the same name as the default one is or was. That should solve the problem. Not really professional but I am not very familiar with RedHat. :roll:

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mohasr

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Tuesday, July 8th 2003, 10:24pm

Hi,
to change the background color that appear before laoding kdesktop , just open the file:
/etc/X11/Xsession
and scroll to this part:
[code:1]
# Mandrake default background
if [ "`whoami`" = root ]; then
xsetroot -solid "#7381BD"
IS_ROOT=1
else
IS_ROOT=
# Load the color only when not called from gdm/kdm
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
xsetroot -solid "#7381BD"
fi
fi
[/code:1]
then change "#7381BD" to any color you want , the 1st for root and 2nd for normal user