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From: schriste@uceng.UC.EDU (Steven V. Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: tvtwm & grey screens
Message-ID: <7058@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 25 Dec 90 15:47:25 GMT
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cigp03@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (Roger `ANJOU' Dubar) writes:



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>I recently got ``tvtwm'' compiled on a SUN 3/80, and ive got an undocumented
>``feature''... that is when Xwindows boots up, it gives me a splatter-grey
>screen no matter what i had called for in my xinit file, using either
>xloadimage or ``ssetroot'' (i.e. its not just that im using `Xsetroot' - cause
>im not!)

>Can anyone enlighten me as to what might be happenening??

There is a .tvtwmrc line which specifies what your startup screen should be
(at least for me lets me do it for a bitmap). The keyword escapes me right
now...

		Steven



>	much thanks...
>					Rog..

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Steven V. Christensen
U.C. College of Eng.
schriste@uceng.uc.edu
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