Are you people fucking retarded?!?! First of all screen backgrounds are useless and idiotic, if you like nice pictures hang a painting on your wall.
And even if we ignore that; *what the hell* does a window manager have to do with with setting your X background? Have GNOME and KDE made everyone in this planet terminally braindead? Peace uriel On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Nathan Neff <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've seen various posts on the mailing list about how to set a > background image in wmii. > > Of course, background images aren't that useful if you're doing > anything, but I like to > see something cool when I start wmii. > > I'm calling the following line from my ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc file: > > feh -bg-center ~/Pictures/Wallpaper/Arch/arch_wallpaper.png & > > It works, but the image only shows up on Tag 1, and it overlaps > other windows. If I press Shift+Mod4+C, then the image goes away. > In addition, when I bring up terminal on Tag1, it's started in Floating mode. > > I also tried running the "feh" command from the command line after wmii > started, > but that image also hogs the Tag and doesn't show any other windows > that I start up. > > I've seen examples where people put the above feh -bg-center command into > ~/.fehbg, and put this line in wmiirc. > > eval `cat ~/.fehbg` > > in their .wmiirc and I tried that, and I get the same results, plus > I'm confused about > why you wouldn't just make ~/.fehbg executable, or call the contents > of .fehbg from > wmiirc. > > Any ideas? I'm using wmii 3.6 on Arch Linux. > > Thanks, > --Nate > >
