Re: FVWM: changing the desktop background

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:34:08 -0400

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.

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