From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 22 10:23:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D0EA37B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail12.atl.registeredsite.com (mail12.atl.registeredsite.com [64.224.219.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE1D143E72 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:23:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@forsetti.com) Received: from cygnus.dns-host.com (cygnus.dns-host.com [209.235.102.27]) by mail12.atl.registeredsite.com (8.12.2/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6MHNAM5013727; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:23:10 -0400 Received: from forsetti.com (d92h200.public.uconn.edu [137.99.92.200]) by cygnus.dns-host.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g6MHN8Z25713; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:23:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D3C3F78.7040908@forsetti.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:23:04 -0400 From: Forsetti Reply-To: matt@forsetti.com Organization: forsetti.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020715 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: twig les Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xv not working right? References: <20020722171149.71948.qmail@web10108.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG twig les wrote: >Hey all, I'm trying to use xv to get a background pic >on my laptop and it's not quite working as expected. > >I'm running 4.6 release (everything else works great) >with xv-3.10a_2. My desktop is windowmaker. The >command I put in my user's .xinitrc is this: > >xv -quit -root /usr/home/twigles/pic.jpg > >and now when I start X the picture flashes for about a >second then bails. I suppose I could run xv in the >background but that seems like a clumsy way to get a >simple backdrop. > >===== >----------------------------------------------------------- >All warfare is based on deception. >----------------------------------------------------------- > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better >http://health.yahoo.com > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > I believe WindowMaker does its own background management, using wmsetbg. It's pretty easy to set a background using the wmakerconf port, have you tried that? You can also set the background in the config files in your ~/GNUstep directory. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message