color of root window

[kleene]

I’m using fvwm2-2.4.15 under RedHat WS3 and haven’t been able to set the
color of the root window. I tested a .Xclients which reads in part:

xsetroot -solid Red
xterm -sb -sl 500 -j -ls -fn 7x14 -geometry 224x76+0+100 &
sleep 5
exec fvwm2

I can see that xsetroot succeeds in making the root window Red, and this
survives the appearance of the xterm. But when fvwm executes, the root
window changes to a purplish-gray, and I’ve been unable to change this.
Adding this

Module FvwmBacker (Desk *, Page * *) -solid DarkGreen

to ~/.fvwm2rc didn’t help.

I’d appreciate any suggestions on how to change the color of the root
window. Thanks.

[thomasadam]

@kleene

I’m using fvwm2-2.4.15 under RedHat WS3 and

Why aren’t you using 2.4.19 (or much more preferrably 2.5.16?)

@kleene

I can see that xsetroot succeeds in making the root window Red, and this
survives the appearance of the xterm. But when fvwm executes, the root
window changes to a purplish-gray, and I’ve been unable to change this.
Adding this

Module FvwmBacker (Desk *, Page * *) -solid DarkGreen

to ~/.fvwm2rc didn’t help.

Then something is clearly changing it. Out of interest, upload your ~/.fvwm2rc file for review, just in case. You might consider adding:

+ I Exec exec xsetroot -solid red

To InitFunction.

– Thomas Adam

[kleene]

@thomasadam

Why aren’t you using 2.4.19 (or much more preferrably 2.5.16?)

I picked up 2.4.15 awhile back because it was available as RPMs. I
should upgrade of course.

@thomasadam

You might consider adding:

+ I Exec exec xsetroot -solid red

To InitFunction.

Thanks, you answered my question. I hadn’t noticed it, but my InitFunction
already had a call to xsetroot that was setting the color of the root window.
I have it working the way I want now.

Thanks for the fast reply.