Re: [xougen] Immediate hacking

[Jonathan Walther]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 12:58:24PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 12/06 06:29 , Herbert Snorrason wrote:
> > changing the default appearance (put something nice 
> > instead of that daft cross-hatch), 
>
> I've actually come to appreciate the cross-hatch pattern lately, in the
> course of testing out monitors. it's very good at showing convergence
> errors, moire patterns, and 'static'.
>
> it is irritating in some ways; but it's a very good basic test pattern.

Redhat has patched their server to start up with a solid black
background.  Personally I'd like to see some sort of extension to the X
server where you can pass it an image (svg, png) for immediate display
as soon as the preferred video mode is reached.  Any takers?

Jonathan

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