FVWM: Setting background images for page, speed...

From: Tom Alsberg <alsbergt_at_zoopee.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:17:13 +0200

Hi there :-)
I would like to be able to have different background (root window)
images for different pages in FVWM. I tried using FvwmPager, but it
seems to only support either running an external program to set the
background or just setting it to a solid color. Right now I am using
solid colors, but I want to be able to have images as backgrounds. The
problem with it invoking an external command for it is that it is
rather slow... That command has to read the image from the disk every
time, and it keeps no cache, and doesn't leave it in the shared
memory... So whenever I switch pages, I have to wait a few seconds
(approximately 3 to 6 seconds) before the background image is set, and
until then I remain with the previous one. I tend to switch pages
often, so this is a bit annoying, especially if I switch pages for
just one second or so and it draws the image of that page only after
I'm not already in it.
With CTWM I could specify xpm files as backgrounds for the workspaces
after the colors of the buttons in the Workspace Manager in the
WorkSpaces section. With the same images I feel a significant lag with
in FVWM, in CTWM they would draw immediately.
I tried using the xpmroot command that comes with FVWM, xsri (which I
downloaded from Red Hat and compiled), display from ImageMagick, and
John Bradley's xv as the external commands to set the images, and I
tried with XPM, and PNG, and JPEG formats, none was satisfactory fast.

Any idea on what I can do to get it fast in FVWM?

  Thank you, any help appreciated,
  -- Tom

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Received on Fri Mar 22 2002 - 07:18:13 GMT

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