On Fri, 28 Aug 1998 07:28:04 -0400 (EDT)
Bob Woodside <proteus_at_pcnet.com>
wrote concerning 'Re[2]: FVWM: term and background xpm':
> Martin Cartwright <M.Cartwright_at_Queens-Belfast.AC.UK> wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > ->I am trying to get a background xpm in an xterm like application.
> >
> > As far as I know there's only one version of rxvt that supports
> > background pixmaps. It was hacked by someone a couple of years ago.
>
> I believe that the mainstream rxvt introduced pixmap bg
> support a while back.
Indeed it did, but you have to explicitly compile in xpm support.
Type 'rxvt -help' and the top of the output should look a little like
this:
$ rxvt -help
Usage v2.4.6 : (XPM,menubar,.Xdefaults)
...
^^^
If the "XPM" is missing you'll need to recompile. Grabe the latest
version (v2.4.6) from
http://babayaga.math.fu-berlin.de:80/%7Erxvt/distribution.html
and make sure you run configure with the '--with-xpm' option
('./configure -help' for more details).
If you still have problems there is an rxvt list (see web page).
You can either use X resources or an invocation like this to
set the pixmap:
rxvt -pixmap "file.xpm;100"
On my webpage I have a very simple Perl script to pass random pixmaps
to rxvt (or any random argument to any program), like this:
random -d ~/lib/pix rxvt -pixmap "%s\;100"
The script replaces the %s with the name of a random file from the
directory ~/lib/pix/.
You might also look at eterm (
http://www.tcserv.com/Eterm/), a hack of
rxvt by the Enlightenment crowd.
Cheers
Ric
Richard J Lister, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
Phone: +1 202-687 2878
Email: ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu
Web:
http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~ric/
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Received on Fri Aug 28 1998 - 10:24:51 BST