Dear all,
my original Q:
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Dear system-managers.
I have a luxury-problem, but still someone may
know how to do this: To make local system
administrators (us) look good, we'd like to
be able to set up images in the root-window.
I have found out how to set up a black-and-white
X-pixmap, by using the xsetroot-facility.
Still, that allows us to set up b/w-images, but
we have some really nice color-images that we'd
like to use. How do I do that ??
System: Sun OS 4.1.3, SS2's and SS10's, running
OpenWindows.
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Thanks sofar to:
saazer@grado.CV.COM,
sunm@erm.oz.au,
Christian.Masopust@emndev.siemens.co.at,
demarthe@alpha.cad.cea.fr,
boenning@igd.fhg.de,
Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au and
johnh@gerbil.umds.ac.uk
Two ways of doing it:
Either with xv (public domain) as:
/usr/bin/X11/xv -root -geometry 425x342 -quit -noresetroot <gif-file>
..setting geometry to something smaller than the whole screen will
cause the root-window to be tiled.
...or with xloadimage (public domain) as:
nice xloadimage -onroot -fullscreen -quiet <gif-file> &
I assume, that both tools can take other formats as well (at least
xv should be able to). I have only tried with xv, and it works fine
though it takes a little time for xv to set up the image.
Best regards:
Morten Krabbe Barfoed
Danish Space Research Institute phone: +45 42 88 22 77 (switch-board)
Gl. Lundtoftevej 7 phone: +45 45 87 40 77 - 161 (direct)
DK 2800 Lyngby FAX: +45 45 93 02 83
Denmark TELEX: 37 198
e-mail: morten@dsri.dk
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