Re: FVWM: question about backgrounds

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:21:32 +0300

On 10 Jul 2003 07:48:01 +0200, Uwe Pross wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> On 09 Jul 2003 at 14:56:50 +0000, Eduardo Alvarez wrote:
>
> > I've been lurking for a while now, and have the following question:
> >
> > I put a picture on the root window via the following:
> >
> > xv -rmode 5 -quit -root ~/bgrounds/hchaos.png
> >
> > I also start a transparent aterm via .xinitrc
>
> I use "wmsetbg" to set the desktop background. It seems to
> set the background in a different way to xv or fvwm-root
> since it changes the background of aterm, gnome-terminal
> automatically.
> It seems also to be stronger than xv and fvwm-root:
>
> aterm -tr
> wmsetbg image1.jpg
> # aterm bg changes to image1.jpg
> fvwm-root image2.jpg

This would be a future invocation like, but currently fvwm-root does not
suport jpg. Supposing this is a type, you should use:

  fvwm-root -r image2.png

> # aterm still got image1.jpg
> gnome-terminal --transparent
> # gnome-terminal uses image1.jpg as background

Then these terminals should use image2.png, I guess.

Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Thu Jul 10 2003 - 06:23:28 BST

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