Re: FVWM: alternative to xsetroot

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 03:40:39 +0200

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:18AM +0200, Johannes Zellner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to a program similar to xsetroot which takes a bitmap
> and fg and bg colors but doesn't tile as xsetroot, if the bitmap
> is smaller than the root window. What I'm doing is something like

xv can do this:

  $ xv -root -quit -viewonly -rbg red +noresetroot -rmode 5 foo.xpm
 
> DestroyFunc FuncBackground
> AddToFunc FuncBackground
> + "I" Exec exec xsetroot -bitmap $HOME/.fvwm/$[page.ny]$[page.nx].xbm -bg \#386da6 -fg \#3060a0
>
> which gets triggered each time I change pages.

Then you should also use the FvwmBacker module (man FvwmBacker).

> The xbm files are much smaller than the root window and it would be nice
> to specify where they should be placed on the root window.

Refer to the xv postscript documentation for further details.

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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