Re: dSetting desktop root
Sasha_Vasko@osca.state.mo.us
Thu, 3 Sep 1998 14:21:21 -0500
David Mihm wrote :
>
>On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Dragan Stanojevic - Nevidljivi wrote:
>
>! The current question is: How to put nice photo as a desktop, I can save
>! it in xpm, that's no problem, but it seams like 2.5 MB xpm won't get on
>! desktop using startmenu -> Decorations -> Pictures
>
> There is work on allowing one to specify the ximageloader (xli or
>xv) at compile time, and then have the pager file pass the ximageloader
>(-root -fillscreen) options to the loader. Currently one would have to
This is already implemented as the patch.
Those of you, who fill lucky, can go to :
http://members.xoom.com/sashav/afterstep.html
and grab the most recent Pager source. This thing implements mentioned
functionality, plus
many many more - like scaling root image to pager's windows, and other
stuff.
Be sure to check out Pager Update page found in the same place.
To use the source:
1. copy Pager dir to AfterStep-1.5beta3/src
2. apply included afterstep patch
( patch is for beta1, so if you have beta3 - change all occurences of
./AfterStep-1.5beta1/ to ./AfterStep-1.5beta3/ )
3. goto /AfterStep-1.5beta3 and run
./configure
, then goto the /AfterStep-1.5beta3/src/Pager and run
make
4.copy Pager executable to /usr/local/bin - or whatever install path you
use and start playing with it.
5. send me your bug reports.
This patch should also be available from /unreleased-patches on David's
site.
>recompile the Pager to use a different option other than -tile to get a
>full screen pixmap.
Currently this functionality is broken - Pager's normal reaction will be to
crash quietly,
if you specify non-xpm file as the background.
>
>! BTW Can I put jpg there instead of xpm?
you can if using this new Pager code.
>
> Use Pager_noxpm for non xpms
Wrong. Pager_noxpm will not do any background stuff at all.
>
>HTH
Sasha.