Re: X Background

1998-09-09 Thread Michael Beattie
On 8 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: [snip] First xsetroot is run. The script will wait until it has finished. that shouldn't take long time and afterwards it continues to put xemacs and kvt in the background. Then icewm is run in the background. Weird, shouldn't we wait for that. Oh yes, we

Re: X Background

1998-09-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 04:33:53PM -0500, D. W. Wieboldt wrote: xsetroot -solid [color] is just fine for one color. For a little xsetroot runs and terminates; no need for the as far as I can tell. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest

Re: X Background

1998-09-08 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 04:33:53PM -0500, D. W. Wieboldt wrote: xsetroot -solid [color] is just fine for one color. For a little xsetroot runs and terminates; no need for the as far as I can tell. Isn't that an .xsession issue though? I had the

Re: X Background

1998-09-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 06:27:58PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 04:33:53PM -0500, D. W. Wieboldt wrote: xsetroot -solid [color] is just fine for one color. For a little xsetroot runs and terminates; no need for the

Re: X Background

1998-09-08 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: | | On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 04:33:53PM -0500, D. W. Wieboldt wrote: | xsetroot -solid [color] is just fine for one color. For a little | | xsetroot runs and terminates; no need for the as far as I can

Re: X Background

1998-09-08 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
[Sorry if you get this twice] *-Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: | | On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 04:33:53PM -0500, D. W. Wieboldt wrote: | xsetroot -solid [color] is just fine for one color. For a little | | xsetroot runs and terminates; no

Re: X Background

1998-09-08 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
A couple of examples: [snip] xsetroot -solid black xemacs kvt icewm wait $! run_my_logout_cleaner First xsetroot is run. The script will wait until it has finished. that shouldn't take long time and afterwards it continues to put xemacs and kvt in the background. Then icewm is run

Re: X Background

1998-09-08 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | xsetroot -solid black | xemacs | kvt | icewm | wait $! | run_my_logout_cleaner | | so what do we gain from this compared to | | xsetroot -solid black | xemacs | kvt | icewm | run_my_logout_cleaner | | ? In other words, what use has this wait?

Re: X Background

1998-09-07 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 12:45:43PM +, David Warnock wrote: I am using XFree86 with icewm. The desktop background is a distracting pattern. So far I clear this (which has sort of difraction patterns at high res) by using the fishtank application. I am quite a boring person and wondered how

X Background

1998-09-05 Thread David Warnock
I am using XFree86 with icewm. The desktop background is a distracting pattern. So far I clear this (which has sort of difraction patterns at high res) by using the fishtank application. I am quite a boring person and wondered how to clear it to a single colour. Thanks Dave

Re: X Background

1998-09-05 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 12:45:43PM +, David Warnock wrote: I am quite a boring person and wondered how to clear [the X background] to a single colour. xsetroot -solid name of your colour Nils -- *-* | Quotes from

Re: X Background

1998-09-05 Thread David Warnock
Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 12:45:43PM +, David Warnock wrote: I am quite a boring person and wondered how to clear [the X background] to a single colour. Nils, Great thanks, just what I wanted. Dave