change color of XOrg gray screen
 

Hi,

Whenever i boot my computer, X displays a gray screen for some seconds before kdm is loaded.
It's the same screen that you see when no display manager is loaded.

However, this is screen isn't really what I want to see ;)

Does anybody know where I can set the background-color of it?

Thx,
Christoph :Pengy:

I've never really looked into changing its color, but you can disable it and force a black screen, which IMHO looks a lot better.

Edit KDM's Xservers file which on LFS is in /opt/kde/share/config/kdm/Xservers and look for line like this ...

and change it thusly

Now when X is started by kdm you'll briefly get a black screen with a cursor till the login window appears.

HTH
Mad

I haven't found the time to try this until today and it works great - that's pretty much exactly what I wanted!!

Thank you! :)