From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 27 13:12:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03660 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 13:10:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orcrist.mediacity.com (orcrist.mediacity.com [208.138.36.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03655 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 13:10:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter@orcrist.mediacity.com) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by orcrist.mediacity.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA05742; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 13:10:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter) Message-ID: <19981227131013.I19610@orcrist.mediacity.com> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 13:10:13 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter To: "K. Marsh" , "q's" Subject: Re: Bitmapped background in Xterm? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from K. Marsh on Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 01:03:40PM -0800 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 01:03:40PM -0800, K. Marsh wrote: > I've been trying to find ways to impress my friends and relatives into > using FreeBSD, and shallow as it may seem, I think a bitmapped background > for an Xterm may help a lot. I've seen these in screen captures of > "enlightenment". I suggest using xv to obtain this effect. The port is in /usr/ports/graphics/xv/ ; a usage which gets what you want is (from your .xinitrc, probably): xv -rmode 5 -maxpect -quit -random `find -L /foo/graphics/background/ -name "[A-Za-z]*" -print` & This will randomly select from all pics in /foo/graphics/background/ and display one in the root window. Along the way, it will inflate the graphic to as close as it can get to the virtual display dimensions while retaining the original aspect ratio. Any space not covered by the graphic will be black. If you "man xv", you'll see a lot of options. Read up on "-root", "-rmode", "-quit" and you'll be in good shape. Enjoy! Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter The best way to accelerate Windows mailto:gsutter@pobox.com is at 9.8 m/s^2. http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message