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From: ivan@cwi.nl (Ivan Herman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.news
Subject: Help for background colour setting on XNews
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Date: 3 Dec 90 08:05:20 GMT
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I have recently moved (back) onto a SUN SparcStation and I have
the choice of using either MIT/X or the XNews server (running
with OpenWindows2). I would prefer to use the second one but
(what a heresy!) I prefer using another window manager and not
the "official" Open Look one. Now, everything works fine,
I can start another window manager but I cannot handle the
background colour porperly. Indeed, if I set the background
colour by xsetroot, it is fine as long as I do not move
a window; in this case the dull gray default colour is set back
for the background.

Now, I have found in the OpenWindow window manager
manual an entry to change the background colour; namely,
one should set the resource value WorkspaceColor to a given
value. Furthermore, the manual says that if I set this value
to zero, the background colour is not touched by the window manager.
I vaguely remember that in an earlier version of XNews, this was
the trick to set the background colour, but this time it does not work
any more (as a matter of fact, why should it? If I run another
window manager, resources of the OpenWindow window manager is none of
my business any more).

Any other trick which helps?
(please mail me, because I do not regularly read these newsgroups)


Ivan Herman
             Centre for Mathematics & Computer Sciences (CWI),
             Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
             Email:ivan@cwi.nl, Tel: +31-20-592.4164