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? :-)
Just the man page. > ============================================ > [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 using gimp. > any clues? Yes. '.bmp' is almost certainly a Windows bitmap. That's not what X wants. (X bitmaps are typically named '.xbm', and are two-color.) > I get "unable to open file" errors when I try to > use xmp files. If you want to set the background to a color image, use a color image format (like jpeg, gif, xpm, whatever) and: xli image.jpeg (xli is in the 'xli' package.) -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;