From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 17 12:13:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA12756 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 12:13:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA12749 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 12:13:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA26698; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 21:14:49 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA17190; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 21:24:25 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199611172024.VAA17190@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: X background bitmap In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19961117144319.3987834e@student.udd.htu.se> from Henrik Johansson at "Nov 17, 96 02:43:00 pm" To: f94jnh@student.udd.htu.se (Henrik Johansson) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 21:24:24 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi > > I am using the fvwm window manager, and would like to know > if it is possible to change the background bitmap to one of my own > pictures, which is possible in MS Windows and OS/2. Is there > already a set of options included with fvwm, and how do you change it? I don't know off memory if there's a X (contrib) utility for that or whether xsetroot supports it but you can use the xv (John Bradley) program at any time to read a file (jpg, tiff, gif, xwd, ppm) and tile/center it to the root window. > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de