Missing checkerboard on startx problem
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Tue Aug 3 16:46:20 UTC 2004
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> 2.6.8-rc2-mm2, kde3.3-beta2
>
> Startx has not, for quite some time now, displayed the checkerboard
> pattern that tells you the x-server is alive, and according to the
> folks on the x.org list, redhat patched that away quite some time
> back.
>
> As this is a quick, usefull check on the monitors condition, and
> really has no bearing on the startup time as it now shows a black
> screen during that time, can this be re-instated with the next x.org
> based update cycle, please?
Other people find the checkerboard annoying.
If you don't like it, look for a patch called "keith-is-the-man" and
comment it out in the source rpm and rebuild.
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