[Gllug] fluxbox/debian

[Simon A. Boggis]

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 17:56, will wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just tried to set the background wallpaper for fluxbox (a blackbox type window 
> manager) and got the following error:
> 
> bash-2.05a$ bsetbg  -f /usr/share/wallpapers/Debian.jpg
> 
> bsetbg: error: tried to run 'xsri --scale-width=100 --scale-width=100' for -f 
> argument,
> bsetbg: but couldnt find 'xsri' in the path! please fix the following
> bsetbg: line in /home/will/.fluxbox/bsetbg to point to an existing application:
> bsetbg: FULL="xsri --scale-width=100 --scale-width=100"
> 
> I have searched for xsri on the local system and it doesn't appear to be there, 
> and also 'apt-cache search xsri' does not turn anything up.  Am I searching 
> properly for the package that provides this, and if so, what do I need to 
> install to provide xsri?  I have found a load of links to RPM's on google, and 
> searched the package lists for Debian but have not found anything.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> Will.

Whilst dlocate is pretty useful for searching for the names of installed
files, I don't think apt-cache search searches by filename. There is
almost certainly something for searching by file for non-installed
packages, but I tend to jump straight to https://packages.debian.org,
where you can search by package or file name in all possible releases.

As far as I can see there is no file called xsri in stable, testing or
unstable.

It looks to me like a dot file in your home dir is requesting xsri:

> bsetbg: line in /home/will/.fluxbox/bsetbg to point to an existing application:
> bsetbg: FULL="xsri --scale-width=100 --scale-width=100"

I would try moving that preferences file for bsetbg aside to see if the
default works? If not, edit the FULL=... line to use something else.

Simon

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