Re: 1.6.6: Pager dogs window mgr down badly
Randall Hopper (aa8vb@vislab.epa.gov)
Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:41:58 -0500
David Mihm:
|On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Randall Hopper wrote:
|
|! Randall Hopper:
|! |Now it works better with the entries in the Default "Pictures" menu.
|!
|! However, I notice that I can't set a new root picture using the entries in
|! the "Pictures" menu unless Pager is running. The root just doesn't change.
|! This seems like a bug.
|
| The Pager is what handles the root bg images if selecting them
|from the menu. This is how it works for the default settings.
| If you don't use the Pager, then you need to go about creating a
|different method for setting the root bg image. This could be
|accomplished my modifying all the fles in the backgrounds/ dir to actually
|invoke you favorite image loader (e.g. xv, xli, etc) with the image as an
|argument.
Ok. So (just to make sure I understand) if a file in backgrounds/* looks
to AfterStep like an image (XPM, JPEG, etc.) then it implicitly invokes the
Pager-internal set-root. Otherwise, if it looks like a command ("Exec
...") it tries an explicit command set-root. Is this right?
Thanks for the reply.
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Randall Hopper
aa8vb@vislab.epa.gov
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