Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-30 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 08:28:52AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:55:28PM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > > For me, though, the important aspect is will sxiv change the desktop > > background like feh will? > > If all you

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:55:28PM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > For me, though, the important aspect is will sxiv change the desktop > background like feh will? If all you want is to set the root window (desktop/background) image, "xsetbg" from the xloadimage package will do nicely. If you

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-30 Thread Brian
On Tue 30 May 2017 at 04:15:10 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/29/2017 10:55 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > >On 05/29/2017 01:19 PM, Brian wrote: > >> > >>There are legitimate concerns about aspects of feh's behaviour, not > >>sufficient as yet to prevent my recommending it, but the topic

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/29/2017 10:55 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: On 05/29/2017 01:19 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 27 May 2017 at 19:13:25 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sat 27 May 2017 at 09:52:45 -0500, David Wright wrote: On Sat 27 May 2017 at 12:32:06 (+0100), Brian wrote: On Fri 26 May 2017 at 17:57:40 -0500,

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-29 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/29/2017 01:19 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 27 May 2017 at 19:13:25 +0100, Brian wrote: > >> On Sat 27 May 2017 at 09:52:45 -0500, David Wright wrote: >> >>> On Sat 27 May 2017 at 12:32:06 (+0100), Brian wrote: On Fri 26 May 2017 at 17:57:40 -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > And

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-29 Thread Brian
On Sat 27 May 2017 at 19:13:25 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 27 May 2017 at 09:52:45 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 27 May 2017 at 12:32:06 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 26 May 2017 at 17:57:40 -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > > > > > And actually, the --no-xinerama flag is not

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-27 Thread Brian
On Sat 27 May 2017 at 09:52:45 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 27 May 2017 at 12:32:06 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > On Fri 26 May 2017 at 17:57:40 -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > > > And actually, the --no-xinerama flag is not needed, at least on my > > > system. I use feh --bg-fill ...

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-27 Thread Curt
On 2017-05-27, David Wright wrote: > > BTW I checked the error message I mentioned earlier. Feh itself > emits the incorrect error message for PNG files, but the correct > message is emitted by the spawned jpegtran program for JPGs. > Please file a wish-list bug for a

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-27 Thread David Wright
On Sat 27 May 2017 at 12:32:06 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Fri 26 May 2017 at 17:57:40 -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > On 05/25/2017 05:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > If I had read the man page more slowly that using the menu to set the > > > image as wallpaper was unnecessary.

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-27 Thread Brian
On Fri 26 May 2017 at 17:57:40 -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > On 05/25/2017 05:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > If I had read the man page more slowly that using the menu to set the > > image as wallpaper was unnecessary. Use: > > feh --no-xinerama --bg-fill > >

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/26/2017 09:48 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > On 05/25/2017 06:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> The man page >>> _mentions_ setting wallpaper in passing my noting "Use --no-xinerama to >>>

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/25/2017 06:08 AM, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 25-05-17, Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: [snip] >> The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). >> The workaround is

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/25/2017 05:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: >>> [snip] > The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). > >>> The workaround is using the feh package to manually set the

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/26/2017 09:48 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 05/25/2017 06:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: The man page _mentions_ setting wallpaper in passing my noting "Use --no-xinerama to treat the whole X

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-26 Thread Ric Moore
On 05/25/2017 06:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: The man page _mentions_ setting wallpaper in passing my noting "Use --no-xinerama to treat the whole X display as one screen when setting

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-25 Thread Brian
On Thu 25 May 2017 at 10:38:22 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 25 May 2017 at 12:18:44 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > On Wed 24 May 2017 at 18:57:01 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > > On Wed 24 May 2017 at 17:28:52 (-0500), Michael Milliman wrote: > > > > > > > I installed and have been using

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-25 Thread David Wright
On Thu 25 May 2017 at 12:18:44 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Wed 24 May 2017 at 18:57:01 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > On Wed 24 May 2017 at 17:28:52 (-0500), Michael Milliman wrote: > > > > > I installed and have been using feh as a stop-gap until the Debian > > > repositories catch up to

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/25/2017 06:08 AM, Dejan Jocic wrote: On 25-05-17, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: [snip] The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). The workaround is using the feh package to

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-25 Thread Brian
On Wed 24 May 2017 at 18:57:01 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 24 May 2017 at 17:28:52 (-0500), Michael Milliman wrote: > > > I installed and have been using feh as a stop-gap until the Debian > > repositories catch up to upstream and/or fix the problem in Stretch. > > Been working just

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-25 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 25-05-17, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). > > > > > > > > The workaround is using the feh package to manually set the

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: [snip] The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). The workaround is using the feh package to manually set the background image. This does work, however, it has to be done each

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-24 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/24/2017 06:57 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 24 May 2017 at 17:28:52 (-0500), Michael Milliman wrote: > >> I installed and have been using feh as a stop-gap until the Debian >> repositories catch up to upstream and/or fix the problem in Stretch. >> Been working just fine, with its

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-24 Thread David Wright
On Wed 24 May 2017 at 17:28:52 (-0500), Michael Milliman wrote: > I installed and have been using feh as a stop-gap until the Debian > repositories catch up to upstream and/or fix the problem in Stretch. > Been working just fine, with its limitations. It's better than a black > desktop. :) I

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-24 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: >> [snip] The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). >> The workaround is using the feh package to manually set the background >> image. This does work, however, it has

Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: [snip] The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). The workaround is using the feh package to manually set the background image. This does work, however, it has to be done each time you log-in. It is better than nothing.