Re: [Nautilus-list] Fix background flash

[Manuel Clos <llanero jazzfree com>]

Louis Garcia wrote:

> > Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes:
> >
> >
> > > On Tuesday, July 10, 2001, at 12:23  PM, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Here's a small patch to fix the 'flash' that occurs when you
> start
>
> > > > nautilus.  The problem was that nautilus was creating a toplevel
> window,
>
> > > > but not setting the background until much later.  It is fixed by
> > > > setting the background pixmap of the window to that of the root
> window.
>
> > > > Wow! Thanks for tackling this.
> > > >
> > > > > Is it okay to commit?
> > > > There are some trivial cosmetic problems with the patch. For
> example,
>
> > > you say "GDK_DISPLAY()" instead of "GDK_DISPLAY ()" and
> > > "GDK_ROOT_WINDOW()" instead of "GDK_ROOT_WINDOW ()" and forgot the
> > > space after gdk_atom_intern before the "(". Also, you initialize
> > > have_set_background when it's declared rather than in the body of
> the
>
> > > code, and use gint rather than int.
> > >
> > > > But it looks fine to commit, with or without fixes to these.
> > Will do.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Jonathan
>
> This still does not fix the situation where the background is a pixmap.
> As I observed, nautilus sets the background to the solid color it began
> with then set the background again the pixmap of the root window.
>
> If we can only set the proper pixmap as the background the first time.
>
> Louis


But you can't do this if the pixmap does not cover the entire desktop... isn't it?



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