Splash screen / background color while KDE is starting up

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Tuesday, November 25th 2003, 7:23am

Hi,

I'd like to know know how to change the background/desktop-color behind the splash screen when KDE starts up.
Does this color depend on KDE or X? Anyone knows?
It would be great.
I hope everybody understood what i'm talking about.

MfG

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Tuesday, November 25th 2003, 8:52am

I think it shows the background that is selected in the KDM settings.

Control Center->Systemmanagment->Loginmanager

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Tuesday, November 25th 2003, 4:49pm

Hmmm....
Sorry. I think this would do it if i would use the graphical login.
But I prefer the text login.
What I'd like to change is the first fullscreen displayed colored area. (When you hit startx from the real black&white console)
Maybe it's a default value of the X-system....
But thanks for your help.

cu

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Wednesday, November 26th 2003, 8:49am

In this case try using xsetroot in your X startup file.

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Saturday, November 29th 2003, 12:06pm

Hi, thanks 4 all your help,

I finally found it.
The startkde-script customized by redhat contains a xsetroot-line.
Even when i changed it in the startx-script, startkde overided the X-Settings.

code-snap:
test "$XDM_MANAGED" || bkg="-solid grey"
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr $bkg
test -f /etc/X11/Xresources && xrdb -merge /etc/X11/Xresources

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