On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:18:19AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > --- brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:40:30AM -0800, > > Xucaen wrote: > > > > > I made new.bmp using gimp. > > > any clues? > > > > Yes. '.bmp' is almost certainly a Windows > > bitmap. That's not what X > > even if I create it from scratch with gimp?
Yes, it's a Windows Bitmaap file. (Just like a .DOC file would be a Word file, even if some other program exported it.) > > wants. (X bitmaps are typically named '.xbm', > > and are two-color.) > > > > > I get "unable to open file" errors when I try > > to > > > use xmp files. > > > > If you want to set the background to a color > > image, use a color image > > format (like jpeg, gif, xpm, whatever) and: > > > > xli image.jpeg > > > > (xli is in the 'xli' package.) > > > > I don't know what xli is. I looked for it using > apt-cache search xli but didn't find anything. > what is xli? is it some sort of image converter? It should certainly be there. It's included in potato, woody and sid, and it's old enough to probably be in slink as well. Package: xli Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 310 Maintainer: James R. Van Zandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1.16-12 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), libpng2, libz1, xlib6g (>= 3.3.5) Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/graphics/xli_1.16-12.deb Size: 156254 MD5sum: a819bd8b7b76b2d5a02044a59f7a293d Description: view images under X11 Can view the following image types under X11: FBM Image, Sun Rasterfile, CMU WM Raster, Portable Bit Map (PBM, PGM, PPM), Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Faces Project, GIF Image, JFIF style jpeg Image, Utah RLE Image, Windows, OS/2 RLE Image, Photograph on CD Image, X Window Dump, Targa Image, McIDAS areafile, G3 FAX Image, PC Paintbrush Image, GEM Bit Image, MacPaint Image, X Pixmap, X Bitmap. -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;