Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 18:10:18 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de> Cc: free <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: wall paper or xwindow background Message-ID: <20000628181018.B233@parish> In-Reply-To: <200006280034.CAA61892@peedub.muc.de>; from garyj@peedub.muc.de on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 02:34:39AM %2B0200 References: <20000627203357.B232@parish> <200006280034.CAA61892@peedub.muc.de>
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On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 02:34:39AM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > 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. > Yes, but if you d/l the 1920x1440 sized image from http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/gif/bsd/nomads.html you can scale it *down* and avoid the pixellation you get scaling *up*. > --- > Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de gj@freebsd.org > > -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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