On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Peter Peltonen wrote:
> Well, I tried that also (as I stated in my original message). Now I got it
> working, again the reason for my previous failure being my lazy reading
> habits and illogical way of thinking:
>
> When I try bsetroot -bg white, it complains that I've to use -solid also. So
> I try bsetroot -bg white -solid and nothing happens. I gave up. For somehow
> I failed to realise that I should define the colour *again* after -solid.
> And I would get white background even if I typed bsetroot -bg red -solid
> white.
um.
if you examine the output of 'bsetroot -help', you will see that it is
plainly stated that the syntax is 'bsetroot -solid <color>'. you do not
need to define the colour before the argument, only once afterwards.
> Yes, I should read the documentation more carefully. Sorry for the waste of
> bandwidth.
>
> Someone mentioned bsetbg, where can I find that? At least my locate command
> did not find it from my hard disk...
bsetbg comes with blackbox, and is most likely in /usr/local/bin. your
locate database probably hasn't been updated since you installed blackbox,
which is why locate failed to find it.
cthulhain
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