[Gllug] Blackbox backgrounds

[Harvey Kelly]

On 27 Jun 2001, Stig Brautaset wrote:

> Date: 27 Jun 2001 22:03:18 +0100
> From: Stig Brautaset <stigbrau at online.no>
> Reply-To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Blackbox backgrounds
>
> Harvey Kelly <kellyh at clara.co.uk> writes:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I'm having trouble with the themes that I've downloaded for Blackbox
> > (Enlightenment is boring me now - too big, too slow): I don't get any
> > background.
> >
> > The docs that I've looked at tell me that if the background is specified
> > in the Style not to touch it, but I've messed around with different things
> > to no avail.  Both themes that I've tried getting to work have the lines
> > as:
> >
> > rootCommand: Esetroot ~/.blackbox/Backgrounds/******.gif
> >
> > rootCommand: Esetroot -display :0.0 ~/.blackbox/Backgrounds/*******.jpg
>
> Do you have the program Esetroot installed then? My system has a line
> like this in my favourite style-file:
>
> rootCommand: bsetbg -full ~/.blackbox/backgrounds/fook.png
>

I changed the line to... rootCommand: bsetbg -full etc etc and it worked
straight away.  Thanks

I downloaded fook to see what's it like - I can see why it's your
favourite.

Thanks again

Harvey


> I then have some settings in a file called ~/.bsetbgrc , but I think
> that in the end bsetbg is just a wrapper for xv, so if xv is not
> installed then you will not get a nice picture.
>
> There might be several ways to skin this cat, so I doubt not that your
> system may have it different.
>
> Cheers, Stig
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