Re: FVWM: Setting up Wallpaper in fvwm

From: Rouben Rostamian <rostamian_at_umbc.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 23:21:13 -0400

Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com> wrote:
> "Rouben Rostamian" <rostamian_at_umbc.edu> writes:
> > --- xli (or its alias xsetbg) -------
> >
> > Advantages:
> >
> > o very fast
> > o handles transparency
> > o smooth background image transition without screen blanking
> >
> > Disadvantages:
> >
> > o does not recognize pgm, xpm, xbm, ...
> > o too fussy; does not recognize certain types of jpg images
>
> I'm guessing you have progressive jpgs. I think you will be able
> to find a patch to fix that.

I don't know what a progressive jpeg is. I will have to look it up.
But here is an example of what I get:

% file ciscosplace.jpg
ciscosplace.jpg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, resolution (DPI), 96 x 96

% xli ciscosplace.jpg
jpegLoad: ciscosplace.jpg - Unsupported SOF marker type 0xc2
ciscosplace.jpg: unknown or unsupported image type

Other viewers have no difficulty in displaying the image.

I have several other jpeg files with the same problem.

> > o poor quality smoothing
>
> I find -sm works pretty well.

The -smooth option merely blurs the image. Applying -smooth multiple
times, as the man page suggests, makes it even worse. A side-by-side
comparison with what xv does with scaled images can be quite striking.

> > o buggy: "xsetbg -fillscreen file.jpg" doesn't fill screen for some images
>
> Depends on the image size, some need -fill, others need -full.

You are right. But it is not clear which images need which option.
I experimented with images of varying aspect ratios, but gave up at
the end.

My apologies for this off-topic discussion.

-- 
Rouben Rostamian <rostamian_at_umbc.edu>
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