From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 11:46:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peedub.muc.de (p3E9B8F20.dip.t-dialin.net [62.155.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB76437BF1C for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:46:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.9.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA61262; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:40:48 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200006271840.UAA61262@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Andy Farkas Cc: Danny , Peter Kok , free Subject: Re: wall paper or xwindow background Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:17:17 +1000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:40:48 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andy Farkas writes: > >On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > >> Danny writes: >> > >> >It all depends on what X windows manager you are using. >> > >> >Are you using Gnome >> >KDE >> >fvm2 >> > >> >? >> > >> >On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Peter Kok wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> >> >> How do I add the freebsd banner as wall paper or xwindow background >> >> on the freebsd? >> >> >> >> Actually, it doesn't. This can be done with xv and the appropriate >> flags (-root, -max, -quit). >> >> --- >> Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de gj@freebsd.org >> > >xv is not in XFree86. > >man xsetroot > Then again, neither are most of the popular window managers. xsetroot is fine if you want to tile the root window, but xv will scale a bitmap to fill it completely. The picture of Chuck standing on the rock facing the sun makes a great root background, and xv fills the entire root window with it. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message