From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 12 20:07:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA16526 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:07:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA16521 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:07:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from elin@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from localhost (elin@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA03178 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:06:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:06:20 -0800 (PST) From: Eric Ken Lin To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Setting background image for fvwm95 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm trying to get a full-color JPEG image to appear automatically as the background image of my fvwm95 desktop immediately upon logging in via XDM. I've tried converting it to BMP format using the xview program & I've also altered the line in my .fvwm95rc file which executes the xsetroot program. After logging out & logging back in via XDM, my background image failed to appear. So I then typed the following line in an xterm window: xsetroot -bitmap & where is the full path of my desired BMP file. The xsetroot program responds with the following error message: xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: where is the name of my BMP file. Is it really possible to get a JPEG image to show up as the background of my fvwm95 desktop automatically upon login via XDM? And if so, how? I'm using version 2.2.5 of FreeBSD, but I doubt this little bit of info will be useful in answering my question. Thanks! ------------ Eric Lin elin@hmc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message