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Fri Dec 25 05:52:59 PM CET 2020 My current Arch Linux install's xorg default background is solid black. I have memories that this used not to be the case, some woven-like mesh was the standard. I looked around and found no info about it. Then I looked for bitmap screenshots, png rather than jpg, with this background on them and then restored it. Below, I doubled it up to look more like it used to on low end displays from the 1990s. xeo% cat xmesh.pbm P1 4 4 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 xeo% convert xmesh.pbm -filter box -resize 8x8 xmesh.xbm xeo% cat xmesh.xbm #define xmesh_width 8 #define xmesh_height 8 static char xmesh_bits[] = { 0xF3, 0xF3, 0xFC, 0xFC, 0xCF, 0xCF, 0x3F, 0x3F, }; xeo% xsetroot -bitmap xmesh.xbm xeo%