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> Putting swm in place of icewm in the example doesn't work in the "normal" 
> sense because swm requires that a background be specified, and you get a 
> crosshatched background doing that. My fiddling around to this point has 
> not resolved the matter.

There are several possible backgrounds including solid black.

> Thanks,
> James

How do I use Xvesa without a window manager, with mplayer?  On my newest 
computer, with four video cards, vesa, svga, and cvidix do not work at all 
(or very badly - cvidix is transparent).  fbdev works but my best video 
card (like all Nvidia cards) does xfbdev in blue on blue and fbdev in 
black on black.  I want a command-line script including 'mplayer -slang en 
-framedrop dvd://1-5).  (I will put oss and x11 in the config file).

DVDs play at 720x540 or so resolution.  Some video cards can match that, 
otherwise I use 800x600 and it is not full-screen, which gives you a 
colored edge with stuff in it, when used with wm.  Ratpoison at least 
provides a white background.

Sindi