From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 18 21:51:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA17640 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:51:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA17635 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:51:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA12180; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:50:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:50:28 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo To: f94jnh@student.udd.htu.se cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X background bitmap Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 14.43 17/11/96 NFT, Henrik Johansson wrote: >Hi > >I am using the fvwm window manager, and would like to know >if it is possible to change the background bitmap to one of my own >pictures, which is possible in MS Windows and OS/2. Is there >already a set of options included with fvwm, and how do you change it? Just use xpmroot. Edit you $HOME/.fvwmrc file, and somewhere in there (in the Function "InitFunction" to be exact..) add something like: Exec "I" xpmroot /home/mark/textures/slate.xpm & This will set the background 'tile' to the slate.xpm pixmap. Simple, huh?! cya, -Mark --------------------------------------------------- | Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com | | RingZero Comp. vinyl.quickweb.com/mark | --------------------------------------------------- "To iterate is human, to recurse divine." - L. Peter Deutsch