[Wylug-discuss] desktop background image

[Seb James]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 12:16 +0100, G Quested wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2006, Seb James wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm trying to find a small program which can set the desktop background
> > using a tiled image. There are plenty out there, but many require gnome
> > dependencies and so on.
> >
> > Who knows the simplest possible program to do this? icewmbg is a
> > candidate, but I'm wondering if there is an even simpler one (icewmbg
> > requires an icewm theme to be installed).
> does xsetroot do what you want?

Almost - it will set the background with a tiled bitmap image, but it
has to be a .xbm file, which is a two colour X bitmap image.

That's the sort of program though.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'm off to google for "xsetroot alternative"

Seb

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