On 02/14/2018 08:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 02/14/2018 06:53 PM, Galen Seitz wrote:
On 02/14/2018 04:13 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
Serendipity *RULES* <grin>
Just before reading your post and after following an unreproducible
web of references and links I had found
<http://www.graphicsmagick.org/>. I found hints that what I wanted
was possible - but how was unclear.
"montage -geometry <size> <file1> <file2> ...<filen> <output>"
resembled what I'd seen. I then used "montage" as a search term at
<https://manpages.debian.org/>. That delivered
<https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat/montage.1.en.html>
which described what I wanted.
There are strong hints that its output will be a "miff" format file.
It's not yet clear if that can be converted to a "png" format file.
If that can not be done, it will not be usable on a MATE panel.
HOWEVER I've found references on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/> that I can
achieve a suitable substitute.
" How the program decides how to arrange the pictures " is not
terribly important as long as it is repeatable.
I doubt authors were thinking of my constraints.
*HOWEVER*, if it works I'm happy.
I'm off to discover just what a "miff" formatted image might be.
As Richard says, it's okay to under use a tool. There's tons of
capability in bash that I don't use, but that doesn't stop me from
using it on a daily basis.
montage is part of ImageMagick. What I think you want is montage
concatenation mode.
<http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/montage/>
Scroll down near the bottom of the page to find concatenation mode
described.
I believe montage (and ImageMagick in general) will look at the
filename extension of the output file to determine the output file type.
Something like this is probably what you want:
montage icon1.png icon2.png -mode Concatenate -tile x1 output.png
I was ho[ping that was correct.
As I'm in "show me state", I'll respond in AM.
Thank you.
Does exactly what I was looking for. How MATE presents the result as an
icon on a panel is not what I was aiming at.
*HOWEVER* its aesthetics are just what I wanted wanted when used on the
desktop.
Thank you all.
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