how do you set root color for an window manager like oroborus?
like this - but this is for fluxbox

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"/usr/bin/fbsetroot%20-solid%20black"
linktext was:"/usr/bin/fbsetroot -solid black"
====================================


xselroot is not there and there are not too many oroborus users out there?
google not much help tonight.

I know i could make an wallpaper but would that be lighter?
Wallpapers are getting old and a solid color would look so clean.

later

I don't use oroborus, but in ratpoison's .ratpoisonrc is:

exec xsetroot -solid"whatever color"

that worked
when i"apt-get install xsetroot" it said it had been replaced but i couldn't find by what?
Found out after - it was installed all the long

Ah newbies! Hehe

Thanks Macondo and Harii. I had been trying to get no wallpaper displayed when running DWM and this worked.
Pedro

Edit: This is an interesting point, but running DWM with the xroot -solid black command in my .xinitrc file, if I bring up a transparent terminal (like urxvt), it still shows the background. So, I guess the background is still being set somewhere else. Maybe I should put that command in some other file, but that would wipe out ALL wallpapers, and I don't mind them when I'm doing fluxbox. Any suggestions?
thanks.

It might be your wallpaper setter loading after your xsetroot.
I use the fehviewer.sh to set wall paper and comment it out in my .xinitrc
#eval `cat $HOME/.fehbg`

Harii:
You were right. I deleted the feh line from xinitrc and the problem is fixed.
Thanks.
Pedro