"No Wallpaper" option permanent

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What size have you made the black image?

36 K.



As I mentioned in an another topic, I’ve noticed the current version of slim exhibits cumulative “memory leak” with each logout/login. So, for an apples-to-apples comparison of the before (original) and after (black image) mem usage, I recommend: boot+login+test then replace imagefile and reboot+login+test

Always I reboot before a measurement.


so, in your case (desiring black) you could just skip (omit) the line mentioning background_color option.
I’m inviting you to test:
1) background.jpg is absent, and themefile specifies background_style ____ color
2) background.jpg is absent, and themefile specifies both background_style AND background_color

Background_style was already stretch. I specified color as #000000 and removed background.jpg. This caused again the hang/stall problem. Restoring to the original situation hasn’t fixed the problem. I’m running live, now, and I’m afraid I won’t avoid to reinstall the OS.

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I ran live and turned the default desktop of the installed system to jwm. It didn’t help me to boot into the installed system. I also turned to true some startup load things in desktop-session.conf, but it didn’t help, too.

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I replaced the edited (black) background.jpg with the original one and I booted into the installed system without problem.

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Thanks for reporting the results.
Unsure whether this part of my earlier post was unclear ~~ drowning the details, too many words.

To prevent SLiM from choking when background.jpg is missing, must specify within the themefile:
background_style color

( valid values for the background_style option are: stretch | tile | center | color )

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The only unclear point to me was which value to use for background_style (the only referred ones as valid at my themefile is “stretch” and “tile”). I let it as it was (“stretch”). I specified color as #000000 (for black), removed the background.jpg and rebooted. This caused the same problems to the other laptop, too: X didn’t start automatically. At least, that laptop gave us an error message, after the effort to manually “startx”:

(==) Log File: "~/.local.share/xorg/Xorg.0.log", Time (...)
(==) Using config directory: "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"

Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error

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I think skidoo is referring to exchanging the “stretch” option with “color”

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Sorry that I didn’t understand (even after the clarification) something so obvious. It worked. I reduced the RAM consumption by 3 M. Many thanks for the help.

To sum up the topic: I wanted to replace the background image with black color, so as to reduce the RAM consumption, but the wallpaper changes for min- sessions don’t stay after reboot. To make it stay, I followed these two steps:
1) I removed the /usr/share/slim/themes/antiX/background.jpg. I did so by renaming it:

sudo mv /usr/share/slim/themes/antiX/background.jpg /usr/share/slim/themes/antiX/background.jpg_bak

2) I ran:

sudo geany /usr/share/slim/themes/antiX/slim.theme

I specified background_style and background_color as below and saved the file:

background_style color
background_color #000000

After these changes, I rebooted into my min-icewm session, and my new black-colored background is here.

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