Another fun thing to try is to use one of the xscreensaver modules as standalone with the -root option. Animating desktop, anyone? Not something I'd use except when friends come over, though.
--Steve. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter Peltonen Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: background image On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:00:13AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > Maybe I really should consider using the apt-get tool that works with > > RPMs too! > > Sounds interesting -- do you have a URL? I read an article about it at Freshmeat. It was still beta then (a half a year ago?) but I'd guess that it's working now fine, some of the smaller distros are using it if I remember correctly... Don't have the URL though. > If you have ImageMagick installed then use display, i.e.: > > display -window root /home/reed/images/animals/cougar01.jpg This worked, thanks. Though it takes over five seconds to do the job. My machine is P166MMX/128M -- too much for it? I hope that using a backgrond image doesn't take any resources after it's set? I'm using one of the background jpeg's that come with Ximian. Thanks, Peter
