"Rouben Rostamian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dan Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Rouben Rostamian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > --- xli (or its alias xsetbg) ------- > > > > > > Advantages: > > > > > > o very fast > > > o handles transparency > > > o smooth background image transition without screen blanking > > > > > > Disadvantages: > > > > > > o does not recognize pgm, xpm, xbm, ... > > > o too fussy; does not recognize certain types of jpg images > > > > I'm guessing you have progressive jpgs. I think you will be able > > to find a patch to fix that. > > I don't know what a progressive jpeg is. I will have to look it up. > But here is an example of what I get: > > % file ciscosplace.jpg > ciscosplace.jpg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, resolution (DPI), 96 x > 96 > > % xli ciscosplace.jpg > jpegLoad: ciscosplace.jpg - Unsupported SOF marker type 0xc2 > ciscosplace.jpg: unknown or unsupported image type > > Other viewers have no difficulty in displaying the image. > > I have several other jpeg files with the same problem.
Yep. Thats what I got until I applied the progressive jpg patch. See if you can find it with Google. The one I have is too old to share. (Nov 2001). > > > o poor quality smoothing > > > > I find -sm works pretty well. > > The -smooth option merely blurs the image. Applying -smooth multiple > times, as the man page suggests, makes it even worse. A side-by-side > comparison with what xv does with scaled images can be quite striking. OK. > > > o buggy: "xsetbg -fillscreen file.jpg" doesn't fill screen for some ima > ges > > > > Depends on the image size, some need -fill, others need -full. > > You are right. But it is not clear which images need which option. > I experimented with images of varying aspect ratios, but gave up at > the end. You might be able to figure it out programmatically, by using convert to get the width/height but I actually keep a file of commands, each image is displayed with a hand tuned command. > My apologies for this off-topic discussion. Background image techniques are discussed every so often on this list. I think it fits in. -- Dan Espen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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]
