Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:29:44 -0500 (CDT) From: hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) To: twigles@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xv not working right? Message-ID: <200207230029.g6N0Tin31456@sheol.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20020722171149.71948.qmail_web10108.mail.yahoo.com@ns.sol.net> References: <20020722171149.71948.qmail_web10108.mail.yahoo.com@ns.sol.net>
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In article <20020722171149.71948.qmail_web10108.mail.yahoo.com@ns.sol.net>, twigles@yahoo.com writes: > Hey all, I'm trying to use xv to get a background pic > on my laptop and it's not quite working as expected. > > I'm running 4.6 release (everything else works great) > with xv-3.10a_2. My desktop is windowmaker. The > command I put in my user's .xinitrc is this: > > xv -quit -root /usr/home/twigles/pic.jpg > > and now when I start X the picture flashes for about a > second then bails. I suppose I could run xv in the > background but that seems like a clumsy way to get a > simple backdrop. One thing I learned is that 'xv' can't write to TrueColor root windows. Might this be your problem? I built the xloadimage port (/usr/ports/x11/xloadimage) and use 'setbg' for root window decorating. Significantly smaller program, and it works on TrueColor displays. HTH, Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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