This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Lame Newbie
Article: 7930 of alt.hackers From: mfx@cs.tu-berlin.de (Markus Freericks) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Lame Newbie Date: 31 May 1995 17:04:04 GMT Organization: TU Berlin Fachbereich Informatik Lines: 20 Approved: If I might say so... Message-ID: 3qi41n$5k8@news.cs.tu-berlin.de <x0agc7pgwp.fsf@gemini.ee.ryerson.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lenin.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: elf@ee.ryerson.ca's message of 28 May 1995 14:48:22 MET Status: RO
In article <x0agc7pgwp.fsf@gemini.ee.ryerson.ca> elf@ee.ryerson.ca (Luis Fernandes) writes: > ObHack: > # atoroot: Set the root-window (usually login) of an X display to > # tiled-bitmap of a given string (usually the hostname). Nifty. ObMicroscopicSmallHack: figuring out why atoroot made my background uniformly white. Changing > xsetroot -bg gray -fg white -bitmap $TMP3 to xsetroot -bg black -fg white -bitmap $TMP3 did the trick (this on a monochrome system). -- Markus (now have I managed to find a "hack" that _is_ too small or what? ;-)
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