--- /dev/null
+--- control-center-1.4.0.1/capplets/background-properties/property-background.c.setroothint Thu Aug 23 18:03:27 2001
++++ control-center-1.4.0.1/capplets/background-properties/property-background.c Thu Aug 23 18:08:02 2001
+@@ -164,6 +164,12 @@
+
+ tmp.pixel = xpixel_from_color (&state->bgColor1);
+
++ XChangeProperty (GDK_DISPLAY(), GDK_ROOT_WINDOW(),
++ gdk_atom_intern("_XROOTCOLOR_PIXEL", FALSE),
++ gdk_atom_intern("PIXEL", FALSE),
++ 32, PropModeReplace,
++ (guchar *) &tmp.pixel, 1);
++
+ gdk_window_set_background (GDK_ROOT_PARENT(), &tmp);
+ gdk_window_clear (GDK_ROOT_PARENT());
+