brownfld@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (10/12/90)
Is there a way to change the background picture from the Unix shell, e.g. without being on console? It would be nice to have a timed background changer without going into windowed Scene. Is there such a utility? Thanks a lot for any advice. Ken. Kenneth R. Brownfield ken-b@uiuc.edu University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Junior, Computer Science/Engineering.
wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis) (10/12/90)
In article <18600009@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> brownfld@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > Is there a way to change the background picture from the Unix shell, >e.g. without being on console? It would be nice to have a timed background >changer without going into windowed Scene. Is there such a utility? Thanks >a lot for any advice. There's a shell script that does this, named "background" (appropriately enough), on the archives. Probably in the binaries directory. -- wiml@milton.acs.washington.edu Seattle, Washington (William Lewis) | 47 41' 15" N 122 42' 58" W "These 2 cents will cost the net thousands upon thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Are you sure you want to do this?"
rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) (10/13/90)
In article <9044@milton.u.washington.edu> wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis) writes: >In article <18600009@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> brownfld@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >> Is there a way to change the background picture from the Unix shell, >>e.g. without being on console? It would be nice to have a timed background > There's a shell script that does this, named "background" (appropriately >enough), on the archives. Probably in the binaries directory. background does not quite the right thing. If you move your menu off the screen with a correct default setting and rely on the right mouse button to pop up the menues, it won't work if the mouse cursor is above the new background. This problem does not occur with Scene.app Thus the two do not do the same thing unfortunately. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet
brownfld@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (10/13/90)
Is there a way to change the background WITHOUT a running WindowServer?
For example, if the NeXT is displaying the login window, the WindowServer
isn't running. So, if the NeXT doesn't have someone logged in, I can't
change the background. I'd like to have a timed, ~daily change of the
background without assuming that the WindowServer is active.
Any possibility? Thanks a lot for your replies!
Ken.
Kenneth R. Brownfield ken-b@uiuc.edu
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Junior, Computer Science/Engineering.keith@panews (10/16/90)
In article <18600014@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> brownfld@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > > Is there a way to change the background WITHOUT a running WindowServer? >For example, if the NeXT is displaying the login window, the WindowServer >isn't running. So, if the NeXT doesn't have someone logged in, I can't >change the background. I'd like to have a timed, ~daily change of the >background without assuming that the WindowServer is active. > Any possibility? Thanks a lot for your replies! > Don't you mean the Workspace, not the WindowServer? The WindowServer MUST be running if the loginwindow is up. Once the userid/passwd is accepted in the loginwindow, the Workspace then comes up. What you need to do is write a small PostScript program that inserts a window with your picture above the root window. I don't know exactly how, but someone around here used to do it. BTW: Running scene with -NXHost doesn't work. It puts the picture on the machine that it's window appears on. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another useless comment from: Keith Mason ...!ibmsupt!keith (415) 855-3920