From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 10:10:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.server.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94E1737BFB9 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:10:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.84.51]) by mta01-svc.server.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000628171027.TGJI381.mta01-svc.server.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 18:10:27 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01000; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 18:10:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 18:10:18 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Gary Jennejohn Cc: free Subject: Re: wall paper or xwindow background Message-ID: <20000628181018.B233@parish> References: <20000627203357.B232@parish> <200006280034.CAA61892@peedub.muc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200006280034.CAA61892@peedub.muc.de>; from garyj@peedub.muc.de on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 02:34:39AM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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