From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 22 17:29:48 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 5514237B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:29:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bodb.mc.mpls.visi.com (bodb.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8D0243E3B for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:29:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawkeyd@visi.com) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by bodb.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E253D4AFD; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:29:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g6N0Tin31456; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:29:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:29:44 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200207230029.g6N0Tin31456@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com Organization: if (!FIFO) if (!LIFO) break; References: <20020722171149.71948.qmail_web10108.mail.yahoo.com@ns.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <20020722171149.71948.qmail_web10108.mail.yahoo.com@ns.sol.net> From: hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) Subject: Re: xv not working right? X-Original-Newsgroups: sol.lists.freebsd.questions To: twigles@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 In article <20020722171149.71948.qmail_web10108.mail.yahoo.com@ns.sol.net>, twigles@yahoo.com writes: > 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. One thing I learned is that 'xv' can't write to TrueColor root windows. Might this be your problem? I built the xloadimage port (/usr/ports/x11/xloadimage) and use 'setbg' for root window decorating. Significantly smaller program, and it works on TrueColor displays. HTH, Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message