ravis@axion.bt.co.uk (Richard Avis) (01/25/91)
Although I haven't got a colour workstation (boo-hoo), I was wondering if anyone has any experience in setting the root picture on an HP9000/300 display running X11R4 (on HP-UX) version 7, in colour, from a gif file.
Can it be done, if so, how did you do it?
Any answers gratefully received......
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===========================================================================don@zardoz.coral.COM (Don Dewar) (02/04/91)
Although I have not done it, because I have a SPARCstation, you should be able to do it the same way I do. There is a program out there on the net (I got it from uunet) called xloadimage. If you give it the name of the gif image file and use the -onroot switch, it should set you root background for you. Good luck. +---------+ | Coral | |@@@@@*@**| |@@*@@**@@| Don Dewar |*@@**@@@@| Coral Network Corporation, Marlborough, MA |@***@@@@@| Internet: don@coral.com |@@**@@@@@| Phone: (508) 460-6010 |*********| Fax: (508) 481-6258 |Networks | +---------+
roger@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Roger Petersen) (02/05/91)
In comp.windows.x, ravis@axion.bt.co.uk (Richard Avis) writes: | Although I haven't got a colour workstation (boo-hoo), | I was wondering if anyone has any experience in setting the root picture | on an HP9000/300 display running X11R4 (on HP-UX) version 7, in colour, | from a gif file. | | Can it be done, if so, how did you do it? You bet. I've used both xsetrootgif and xloadimage. Make sure you have a new (2.0+?) version of xloadimage... old versions didn't release the colors they allocated when you destroyed the root image. (Programs that modify the root window are supposed to set a property on the root window, to allow future freeing of the pixmap by other applications.) Anyway, it works great. The performance under X11R4 is pretty good too. With a 1024x768 13-color simpsons.gif background, when I iconify an 80x32 (~660x550 pixel) window, the root GIF image is redrawn in about 250 to 300 milliseconds. (98549 Catseye graphics card). Newer graphics cards are faster. Roger