[openbox] Background Color Weirdness

[David Barr]

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 16:03 -0400, David Courtney wrote:
> > I believe he was giving you another app with transparancy to test.
> > (aterm -tr)
> 
> Ah ... 
> 
> aterm transparency works.
> 
> Is there a better way to set the background than using xsetroot?  And
> is it possible to set colors other than black, cyan, red, magenta,
> etc...  the 000000-ffffff range doesn't seem to work.
> 
> 

you can use 

xsetroot -solid "#ffffff"

or whatever, using mod is nice too 

xsetroot -mod 8 8 -fg "#8b8d83" -bg "#a9aba3"

would give you a criss-cross pattern etc