From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 6:44:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peedub.muc.de (p3E9B8F56.dip.t-dialin.net [62.155.143.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D7E037B824 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 06:44:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.9.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id CAA61892; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 02:34:39 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200006280034.CAA61892@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mark Ovens Cc: free Subject: Re: wall paper or xwindow background Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:00:18 +0200." <20000627203357.B232@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 02:34:39 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Ovens writes: >On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 08:40:48PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: >> xsetroot is fine if you want to tile the root window, but xv will >> scale a bitmap to fill it completely. The picture of Chuck standing >> on the rock facing the sun makes a great root background, and xv fills >> the entire root window with it. > >You don't need to scale *that* image to make it fill the root window, >unless you're running obscenely high resolutions. it's available from >640x480 to 1600x1200 (I think) at >http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/gif/bsd/index.html > Wow ! neat. But I run 1368x1024, so I still need to scale. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message