[ale] that stippled gray X background

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

Fletch writes:
 > >>>>> "hirsch" == hirsch  <hirsch at zapmedia.com> writes:
 > 
 > [...]
 > 
 >     hirsch> I really don't understand why there isn't an option to set
 >     hirsch> the background at startup.  Everything I've seen sets the
 >     hirsch> background after the grey is drawn.
 > 
 >         I think it's in part because X has always* started up with
 > the stippled grey background.  It's tradition. :)

Yeah, I know.  But doesn't that violte the "mechanism, but not policy"
philosophy of X?

--Michael
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