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
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
--- 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
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
[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
--- 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
]:~$ 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
--- 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
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
--- 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
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
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
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