dhsu@Neon.Stanford.EDU (David Hsu) (08/16/90)
Hi. I am kinda new to X windows, so excuse me if I muff this up, but I am working on a HP370 using x, and I was wondering if it is possible to put a picture in the background. I vaguely recall hearing something about bitmaps, and i have one here called earth1.sr.Z, which i uncompressed. What do I need to do from here to be able to mount this in as a background screen? if I can't do this using a bitmap, can I using gif's? if so, how? Please email replies since you all probably have hashed this over several times already, and thanks in advance. Dave Hsu dhsu@neon.stanford.edu
klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) (08/16/90)
In article <1990Aug15.212315.8879@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, dhsu@Neon.Stanford.EDU (David Hsu) writes: |> I was wondering if it is possible to put a picture in the background. The usual procedure for doing this is to convert your image into an X pixmap, make this the background pixmap of your screen's root window, then clear the root window to force the server to display it. There are several programs that automate this, using images of most popular formats. Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee
bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (08/16/90)
Get expo.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/xloadimage.1.06.tar.Z, which can handle most of the popular bitmap formats, including Sun Rasters, quite handily.