root window completely messed up

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Biju Chacko wrote:

> Duh ... what happens if you try to set another background using xfbd ?

  Same thing -- with traces of different colors.
 
> or with xsetroot -solid black

  Dunno, haven't yet tried it.

  What puzzles me is why it's only the root window that's trashed. The
control panel, virtual terminals and GIMP show up just fine.

Thanks,

Rich