Re: background? (+other stuff)

[Kevin Miller <sar 403forbidden net>]

One easy way to avoid the double loading of images.. in e-conf, set the
background to none.

sar

On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 10:41:24PM -0600, brady was heard to say:
> > I'm not sure whether these issues are Enlightenment, Gnome or XFree86 but I thought I'd ask and see if there have been any similar experiences.
> > 
> > 1.  Background:  I set my background in the Gnome Control Center and it stays for the current session but when I restart it brings up the Enlightenment background.  Actually on startup it flashes my background for just a second then the E background a!
> > ppears.
> 
>   This has been bugging me for a long time.  Why does Gnome provide at least
> two ways to change the background independant of the 'native' window manager
> method?  Most WMs let you configure the background already, having Gnome fight
> with them for control of it is not good..
>   (for example: I currently have a WindowMaker theme selected.  If I used the
>    Gnome 'background-properties' method, it would create a race between Gnome
>    and WindowMaker to draw the background and if they were different
>    backgrounds the root window might end up with either one..even if not, it's
>    a waste of CPU cycles to load the same image twice. :-) )
> 
>   Daniel
> 
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