The stipple and X cursor are forever ingrained into my memories. I remember it so vividly how back in 1998 when I installed my first Linux distro (suse 6-ish) and after some configuring i typed "startx" and then BOOM! Grey "unix-y" weirdness for a minute or two and then KDE 1. It will never not hit me with immense levels of nostalgia whenever I come across it, which admittedly is not very often these days.
Wow, I could have written that exact comment myself. Those were the happy startx, after you got the monitor sync rates right. The myth went that if you got them wrong, you could fry the monitor. I remember that suse package came with a couple of pins. one tux and one suse chameleon. I preserved them for a long time. But I moved way too many times. Fun times. Thanks for the nostalgia:)
