From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 13 00:12:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA19835 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:12:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA19828 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:12:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04721; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:12:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:12:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Gunnar Flygt cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pixmaps for xsetroot In-Reply-To: <352F2B76.8D483C72@sr.se> 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 On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > I have tried various bitmapformats to set as background in X, but I > can't > find what type it should be. I get the answer "wrong bitmapformat" with > allt the types I've tested. What should I use, and where can I find some > nice > examples? Check the `xsetroot' manpage, or try xv -- you can give it a command line option that sets the root to a given graphic, and you can use any supported graphic type (including gifs). I use this to make my xlogin window uniquely FreeBSD. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message