From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 18 15:24:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 001101.zer0.org (001101.zer0.org [206.24.105.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A8A214DA1 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:24:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@001101.zer0.org) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by 001101.zer0.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) id PAA04616; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:21:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:21:34 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: Kevin Weiss Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm and painting the root window Message-ID: <19990418152134.M58392@001101.zer0.org> References: <19990418201414.72D5714F1B@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990418201414.72D5714F1B@hub.freebsd.org>; from Kevin Weiss on Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 03:11:12PM -0500 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 03:11:12PM -0500, Kevin Weiss wrote: > > I want to change the background login screen (root window). I checked > I also saw reference to using "xv" to do this. However, it wasn't > clear (to me) how to use "xv" with graphical file. Does the graphical > file have to be in a certain format (*.bmp, *.jpg, *.gif)? In my case, > it's a *.gif file. I do this: xv -rmode 5 -maxpect -quit -random `find -L /home/gsutter/docs/graphics/background/ -name "[A-Za-z0-9]*" -print` & and toss that in my .xinitrc file. You can also make it an alias or just toss it in ~/bin or something. I call it as "chbg", which is very easy to type one-handed as long as you're not using a split keyboard. You don't have to have a directory tree full of files, either. You could just use xv to display any graphic. Cut out the -random and the entire find command and add a filename. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Heisenberg might have been here. mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message