On 14 Oct 2002 20:34:08 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
>
> Steve Talley <stephen.talley_at_sun.com> writes:
> > Victor Eijkhout wrote:
> >
> > > At 10:35 -0600 2002/10/10, Steve Talley wrote:
> > >
> > > > on each desktop, with different background images) at startup.
> > >
> > > I've compiled your xvirtualroot program and it works as advertised.
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > How do you start different pictures on different desktops
> > > _at_startup_? I can do something complicated with FvwmBacker, but it
> > > sounds like you have a better solution.
> >
> > I use Xt resource-setting arguments, like "-xrm '*Desk: 1'". See the
> > FVWM man page for details.
>
> An argument like "-xrm '*Desk: 1'" will cause an application
> to start on a different desk, but it won't put a different picture
> on the background for each desktop. For that, you need FvwmBacker.
> Try it, I don't think its that complicated.
Well, "xvirtualroot -xrm '*Desk: 2 0 1' -f bg.xpm &" does what is needed.
Not that I advocate setting a background using permanent xvirtualroot
windows instead of FvwmBacker module together with fvwm-root or
fvwm-themes-images utilities. But this is an acceptable solution.
I see one advantage to xvirtualroot, it may be a bit faster as compared to
FvwmBacker that always recalculates the image. One of disadvantages is
that half transparent png icons look not very good on such virtual root
and are slow. (This is only relevant for fvwm-2.5.x, of course.)
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Mon Oct 14 2002 - 21:38:50 BST