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Date:      Sun, 17 Nov 1996 21:24:24 +0100 (MET)
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        f94jnh@student.udd.htu.se (Henrik Johansson)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X background bitmap
Message-ID:  <199611172024.VAA17190@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19961117144319.3987834e@student.udd.htu.se> from Henrik Johansson at "Nov 17, 96 02:43:00 pm"

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> 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?

I don't know off memory if there's a X (contrib) utility for that
or whether xsetroot supports it but you can use the xv (John Bradley)
program at any time to read a file (jpg, tiff, gif, xwd, ppm) and
tile/center it to the root window.

> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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