Comment 18 for bug 413348

A possible solution to the stripes at right and bottom of screen could be:
- Using as xsplash's image one whose borders are of a single, solid color (e.g. using some Gimp gradient from image's central stuff to that solid color)
- Using as X server's background color that same solid color.

This way when session's resolution changes, stripes or bands not covered by the image can't be seen -they mix seamlessly with xsplash's image borders-.

This occurred to me when seeing the new image used at boot, that with black background and a light from top illuminating the Ubuntu logo. Now the change in resolution leaves no noticeable stripes at right and bottom of screen because X's color background is black too -unfortunately it changes after a bit to some orange and the stripes become visible-.

Hope this helps.