On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> I found some tools for managing background images:
>
> whitebox, fluxbg and bbconf.
>
> The following is my review of whiteBOX-0.5nb3 (installed using pkgsrc)
> using gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0nb2.

I also now installed bbconf and fluxbg. Here are my comments:

I installed bbconf 1.10 (using pkgsrc build environment) with
qt3-libs-3.3.2nb1.

It appeared to work, but I didn't have any themes nor background choices.

It said at startup:

 unable to create plugin from /usr/pkg/lib/bbconf/plugins/libthemes.so

I ktrace'd it but didn't see where the problem was. The other plugins
appear to work. I saw someone else had similar problem
http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=9481&ref_=fr

So bbconf (at this time) didn't provide me with any tool for choosing a
background image.

I installed fluxbg-0.7 which is using gtkmm-2.2.12. (I made a pkgsrc
package for fluxbg, if anyone is interested.)

It didn't provide any useful instructions.

I ran fluxbg but it complained "Could not open file".

I ran "fluxbg_conf --help" and it found my bsetbg and created a
/home/reed/.fluxbg file indicating the path to bsetbg.

I ran fluxbg again and it said "broken pipe".

I ran fluxbgd and it said:

 Starting up fluxbg daemon...
 fluxbgd: Could not open file - No such file or directory

ktrace said:
 18876 fluxbgd  NAMI  "/home/reed/.fluxbgl"
 18876 fluxbgd  RET   open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory

The README indicates that .fluxbg should have settings. But it only has
one setting in it. I am not sure about .fluxbgl. I didn't read the source.

I stopped here.

Thank you to those who provide other suggestions: gthumb, rox, and chbg. I
think rox is too much (I used it a few years ago). I will try gthumb and
chbg. Does gthumb have an option to setthe root image?

Now I have a list of around 18 image viewers.

I am still looking for the perfect tool for selecting a background image.

  Jeremy C. Reed
echo 'G014AE824B0-07CC?/JJFFFI?D64CB>D=3C427=>;>6HI2><J' |
tr /-_ :\ Sc-y./ | sed swxw`uname`w

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