From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 25 19:17:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16165 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 19:17:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.auracom.net (root@mail1.auracom.net [165.154.140.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16148 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 19:17:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arthur@col.auracom.com) Received: from outpost.col.auracom.com (ts2-9.tru.auracom.com [165.154.114.73]) by mail1.auracom.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA18681; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 22:19:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 23:21:42 -0300 (ADT) From: arthur Reply-To: arthur To: Haavard Vaagstoel cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fave Window Manager... found it. In-Reply-To: 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 Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Haavard Vaagstoel wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, arthur wrote: > > > .... you can cutomize the background color in .fvwm2rc by tweaking the > > line with "xsetroot" in it, personally I set it to black and then use > > xloadimage to display gifs or jpgs. > > Why do you set it to black if you are going to display pictures on it > anyway? > ... snicker, good question, I guess the only true answer would be that I had it set for black before I got in the habit of using xloadimage, and realized that even if the image wasn't fullscreen I could set the border color within xloadimage to black. Also from time to time when I'm tweaking the window manager and have to restart things it'll come up black, so I guess in the long run it comes in handy to have the default background color set to something bareable. ltr - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - arthur@col.auracom.com In a world without fences, is there a need for gates --end-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message