[5317] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.0F: xeyes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Wed Jun 27 05:48:15 1990
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 90 05:48:02 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: lingling@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[5291]
From: lingling@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 90 18:41:37 EDT
What were you trying to do?
Change the background of xeyes to black.
What's wrong:
It doesn't work. When I use "xeyes -bg black &" it flashes
the black background once, then back to white. But -fg does work.
If by "background" you mean the color of the center region of the
eyes, then according to the man page, you should be using
xeyes -center black &
If by "background" you mean the window that lives behind the eyes,
then you need to do
xeyes -xrm '*eyes.shapeWindow:false' -bg black &
The latter is obviously a bit cumbersome, and I'm sending in a patch
to the X consortium to make it a bit easier, but that won't make it
into our software for a while. You can make things a bit easier by
putting this into your .Xresources file:
xeyes*eyes.shapeWindow: false
and then just doing
xeyes -bg black &
when you want to run it.
If you need more help with this, please contact olc.
Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance
