dawson@apollo.HP.COM (Keith Dawson) (11/10/89)
There is no supported way to get a picture truly in the background (on the
root rectangle) while the Display Manager owns the root.
You can run Domain/X11 in the X-owns-root mode, however; now you can put
any picture desired on the root rectangle.
The MIT-supplied client program xsetroot lets you tile the root rectangle
with any given color, pattern, or bitmap. This client is available with
all versions of Domain/X11.
A public-domain version of GIF for X11, called xgif, has an option whereby
it draws a GIF image in the root rectangle and keeps it properly refreshed
on exposures, etc.
Here at Apollo we run a modified version of xsetroot that supports GIF
format directly by command-line option, so it is the X server that keeps
the root rectangle refreshed, not a client program -- much more efficient.
-->Keith
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The new X-Window system as is available on the DN-2500 is capable of
displaying a picture as the background image (rather than the stipple pattern
or all white/black). Other than that, I do not know of any other method of
doing what you wish.
Michael Lampi
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