[Wylug-discuss] desktop background image

[Seb James]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 11:58 +0000, Neil Pilgrim wrote:
> 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.

Yes, too many dependencies unfortunately, or rather the deps are too big
(libMagick is quite bit given all the functionality it packs).

Perhaps I'll have to write pngsetroot, which will link to libpng and
nothing else.

Seb

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