Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 14:52:35 -0800 From: chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: just discovered the app bgrot - this is cool Message-ID: <200201061451553.SM01508@there> In-Reply-To: <20020106163829.C23043@over-yonder.net> References: <200201051231686.SM01904@there> <200201061405674.SM01508@there> <20020106163829.C23043@over-yonder.net>
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On Sunday 06 January 2002 02:38 pm, Matthew D. Fuller banged out on the k= eys: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:06:38PM -0800 I heard the voice of > > chip, and lo! it spake thus: > > The default display type is tiled, but that is easily changed in the = conf > > file also, I set mine to centered, looks much better that way, for la= rger > > images. (This is not documented.) > > Just to clarify a bit: > > This can't be handled through the config file, it requires a little > 1-line tweak to the script that actually runs all the rotations. =20 Yes of course, my mistake. It's in the background.sh file.=20 -- Chip > It uses > xv(1) to do the displays, so tiled is the default, and you can also do > centered or stretched (who needs aspect ratios, anyway?) or even some o= f > the other fun modes xv can do (mirrored is nifty). > > Allowing better control of stuff like this is one of the targetted > features of the ever-vaporware bgrot v2. Also, xv has occasionally > (maybe 10 or 15 times in the years I've been running bgrot) just decide= d > to not display an image, and instead eat all the CPU time it can get it= s > hands on until you kill it; v2 will be able to monitor for that... unt= il > then, you'll just have to Not Panic (tm) when you notice your >1 load > average come out of nowhere, and just smack xv down. --=20 <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> Windows 95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patc= h to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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