On 21 May 2003 11:33:36 +0200, Fabio Stumbo wrote: > > I use fvwm2 since 1994 but only now I feel the need to use more than one > desktop... ;-)) > > My problem is the following: in my current configuration (1 desktop) I > want a background which should be picked up randomly in a directory with > pictures. Moreover, it should change every hour. The only way I have been > able to obtain this is as follows: > > my StartFunction contains the line > > + I Exec exec crontab /usr/local/etc/fvwm/cron.dir/hour
Try the following instead in 2.5.x: AddToFunc ChangeRootHourly + I Exec exec cgbg + I Schedule 3600000 ChangeRootHourly AddToFunction StartFunction + I ChangeRootHourly > I don't know if this is the best way to have the job done but, so far, it > worked, so I didn't feel the need for another solution (but for being > forced to install manually xv, which is no longer included in any > distribution... :-( You don't need to use xv, there is "display" from ImageMagick that understand all image formats, there is fvwm-root from 2.5.x that understands XPM and PNG and there are some other root setters. > Now I use 2 desktops. I realized that my scripts have the effect to put > the same image in the two desktop. What I want now is: on the first > desktop (=0), same behavior as before. On the second desktop (=1), I > would like to have a solid color background, which shouldn't change. I > made some tries with FvwmBacker, but without success, so I am out of > ideas: can anybody help me? You may run FvwmBacker that uses 2 Pixmap colorsets, one per desk. Then the setup for 2.5.x may look like this (untested): DestroyFunc ChangeRootHourly AddToFunc ChangeRootHourly + I PipeRead `dump-2-config-lines-for-colorset-51-and-52` + I Schedule 3600000 ChangeRootHourly AddToFunction StartFunction + I ChangeRootHourly + I FvwmBacker *FvwmBacker: Command (Desk 0) Colorset 51 *FvwmBacker: Command (Desk 1) Colorset 52 The script should dump 2 lines, something like: Colorset 51 Pixmap bg7.png Colorset 52 Pixmap bg4.png Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
