Around 14 o'clock on May 28, "Dan Garthwaite" wrote: > Is there an Xresource setting or maybe a command line option to specify the > color of the X server, before it's even started? Not that I know of, but it would be easy to hack the insides of the server to make this work. You're in luck with this particular choice; the X spec says the default root background is a tile using black and white pixels, so you really can just change the source and still be compliant with the spec. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab