[Wylug-discuss] desktop background image

[Neil Pilgrim]

Seb James wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 12:16 +0100, G Quested wrote:
>>On Wed, 10 May 2006, Seb James wrote:

>>>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.
[...]
>>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"

How about the display program in imagemagick?
   display -window root file.jpg

I've used this in the past. Maybe it has too many dependencies for you? 
Not gnome though.

-- 
Neil