ironduke@fuhainf2.uucp (12/14/90)
Hi there ! a simple problem: is it possible to read a 16-color-picture into the X-windows-background. it's easy to use blach/white pictures as background, using 'setroot -bitmap ..', but very slow. perhaps anybody constructed a better solution. i use windows 11 Release 3 on a 386-AT with interactive-unix release 2.0.2. thanks in advance
etaylor@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Eric Taylor) (12/19/90)
In article <597@fuhainf.UUCP>, ironduke@fuhainf2.uucp writes: |> |> Hi there ! |> |> a simple problem: |> |> is it possible to read a 16-color-picture into the X-windows-background. |> |> it's easy to use blach/white pictures as background, using |> 'setroot -bitmap ..', but very slow. |> |> perhaps anybody constructed a better solution. |> |> i use windows 11 Release 3 on a 386-AT with interactive-unix release 2.0.2. |> |> thanks in advance It is always possible. You can always create a pixmap from an image and use XSetWindowBackgroundPixmap or whatever it is. If it is slow to use xsetroot, however, (which I entirely believe given the type of machine you described), I doubt that anything would be faster. -- Eric Taylor Baylor College of Medicine etaylor@wilkins.bcm.tmc.edu (713) 798-3776
cristy@eplrx7.uucp (John Cristy) (12/19/90)
In article <597@fuhainf.UUCP> ironduke@fuhainf2.uucp writes: >is it possible to read a 16-color-picture into the X-windows-background. There are at least three program that will do this: xloadimage, xv, and ImageMagick all on in the contrib directory of expo.lcs.mit.edu. -- The UUCP Mailer