On Monday 04 November 2002 19:47, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > A couple items for the list: > > First, I discovered a new app on freshmeat.net today that other blackbox > users of you out there might like: idesk. It provides icons for your > rootwindow *without* taking over the rootwindow. Personally, while I > like ROX for a file manager, I haven't liked the trend in the 1.3.x > series where it takes over the rootwindow and provides the backdrop. > Idesk solves this problem -- and reduces the overhead quite a bit: ROX > now runs at about half the size it did when I used a pinboard, and idesk > uses a scant 2M (as opposed to the 7M I'm saving from using the ROX > pinboard). > > Second, now that I'm no longer using ROX for my pinboard, I had to > revert to setting a backdrop image using the rootCommand in my blackbox > style... Which meant I had to reinstall Eterm to get Esetroot. I'm on > Debian, which means xv isn't an option... what other programs are > blackboxers using to do this?
if you must use it xv is in non-free. However I interpret that as "since I use Debian I actually read and care about licenses" (-: Window Maker ships with a useful background tool. There are several GTK/GNOME ones that run without a gui if told to do so. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
