From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 23 19:53:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28462 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 19:53:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kevin.isadora.org (25.209.17.178.arpa.broadband.net [209.17.178.25] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28062 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 19:52:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by kevin.isadora.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA00638; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 19:49:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cagey@kevin.isadora.org) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 19:48:57 -0800 (PST) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" Reply-To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" To: Nawaf Razak cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Desktop setup hints In-Reply-To: <003801bd56c1$6972f3e0$1b2f63c3@system965> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Nawaf Razak wrote: Oh my what long lines you have. => Hmmm cant say I found much on the setup process for the x desktop. => => For example lets say I have a background image i like located in => the folder /junk now I want this image to be ehh the background => image for my desktop everytime I run startx.. where do I go one => about it ..? => => the .xinitrc ??? I fumbled with this for quite some time until fvwm95, which came with a really complete sample rc file. And as for wallpaper, compile and install from ports /usr/ports/x11/xview. # xloadimage -help => "Politicians should be allocated with PIDS kill them when u find => no use to them" Kill -URG Bill :) -- Regards and Best Wishes, | Way too many Bill-Boards on Kevin G. Eliuk | the information highway. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message