harrism@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (11/03/90)
I know how to xsetroot -bitmap stars.xbm -bg red -fg green to set the root background to a 2 color picture. Does anyone know how to display a multicolor picture? If so, do you have any pictures? Mitch
raveling@unify.com (Paul Raveling) (11/03/90)
In article <1773.2731708f@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>, harrism@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes: > I know how to xsetroot -bitmap stars.xbm -bg red -fg green > to set the root background to a 2 color picture. > > Does anyone know how to display a multicolor picture? > > If so, do you have any pictures? There's a program named setback in the Img Software Set that does this, and there's a collection of images available for it (*) on venera.isi.edu. (*) means I presume this is still there; I no longer have ftp access, but haven't heard of ISI taking this stuff off the net. To find the software, look for it as: venera.isi.edu: pub/img_1.3.tar.Z or expo.lcs.mit.edu: contrib/img_1.3.tar.Z For image files, check the README's and directory listings for the tree rooted at: venera.isi.edu: images ------------------ Paul Raveling Raveling@Unify.com
dbrooks@penge.osf.org (David Brooks) (11/04/90)
On 2 Nov 90 , harrism@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com wrote: >I know how to xsetroot -bitmap stars.xbm -bg red -fg green >to set the root background to a 2 color picture. > >Does anyone know how to display a multicolor picture? Jim Frost's xloadimage program (available from your usual X source) will load a picture in the background, in just about any format. GIF is the best because of the builtin compression. Two caveats: you can't load a picture that will monopolize the root colormap. xloadimage will do a color reduction on the fly if you ask it. And, as you're creating a large pixmap, your system will tend to thrash more when you move windows around. >If so, do you have any pictures? Ah. Not so long ago, there were many ftp sites with images. Too many people found that some of those images involved people with fewer than the canonical number of clothes, and the sites got inundated with requests and awkward questions from the authorities. So some of these sites have gone away. You might try a.cs.uiuc.edu 128.174.5.20 dsl.cis.upenn.edu 130.91.6.12 hubcap.clemson.edu 192.5.219.1 ssyx.ucsc.edu 128.114.133.1 surya.waterloo.edu 129.97.129.72 but this list is over a year old. -- David Brooks dbrooks@osf.org Systems Engineering, OSF uunet!osf.org!dbrooks It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, but now it's Miller time.