Re: jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-26 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:04:09PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: --- Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried it and I got an error message saying bad bitmap format file Heh, don't know... sorry ;-( I've seen the program xv suggested before, but many get all worked up

Re: jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Xucaen wrote: Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: somewhere else instead of one you made with gimp ?? Speaking of gimp, how are you telling it what format to use ?? I think you have to tell gimp to use jpg or bmp format ... just naming it that way *may* not do it. correct. I

Re: jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-26 Thread Xucaen
--- Erdmut Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uses an .xpm. but so far I haven't found anything that will use a .jpg. how are you doing it? xli -- as has already been suggested. $ xli -onroot -quiet your.jpg http://packages.debian.org/stable/graphics/xli.html that's strange, I did

xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
hi all.. sorry about all the stipid questions is there an xsetroot HOWTO out there? :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap ~/new.bmp xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: /home/xucaen/new.bmp

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap ~/new.bmp xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: /home/xucaen/new.bmp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I made new.bmp

jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
--- Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap ~/new.bmp xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: /home/xucaen/new.bmp [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread brian moore
]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap ~/new.bmp xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: /home/xucaen/new.bmp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I made new.bmp using gimp. any clues? Yes. '.bmp' is almost certainly a Windows bitmap. That's not what X wants. (X bitmaps are typically

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
--- brian moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:40:30AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap ~/new.bmp xsetroot: bad bitmap format file

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread Touloumtzis, Michael
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:40:30AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: hi all.. sorry about all the stipid questions is there an xsetroot HOWTO out there? :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap

Re: jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
--- Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried it and I got an error message saying bad bitmap format file Heh, don't know... sorry ;-( I've seen the program xv suggested before, but many get all worked up 'cause it's not a *free* program in the Debian sense of the word

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread brian moore
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

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:51:55PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap ~/new.bmp xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: /home/xucaen/new.bmp [EMAIL