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Subject: -14- How can I display my own background image under Indigo
Magic?
Date: 30 Apr 1995 00:00:01 EST
Two SGI employees described two different ways to do this, one for
folks who don't care about desktop icons and one for folks who do.
Joel Tesler of SGI <joel@sgi.com> says:
1) Disable Indigo Magic desktop icons in any of the three ways
(~/.desktop-<host>/nodesktop, ~/.disableDesktop, or 'chkconfig
desktop off') described in the previous entry.
2) Set the resource
4Dwm*SG_useBackgrounds: false
3) Run whatever command you like to display the image on the
background.
Jon Madison of SGI <jm@indianapolis.sgi.com> says:
1) cp /usr/lib/X11/system.backgrounds ~/.backgrounds
2) Read your new ~/.backgrounds file (and 'man background') to see
how it works, and edit it. Here's an example entry which uses
'xli' (a free image viewer) to display a GIF image:
background "Legos"
command "-execute /usr/local/bin/xli -onroot -fork /usr/people/jm/graphics/pix/lego.gif"
default "-execute /usr/local/bin/xli -onroot -fork /usr/people/jm/graphics/pix/lego.gif"
exeok "/usr/local/bin/xli"
readok "/usr/people/jm/graphics/pix/lego.gif"
3) Run the 'background' customization panel. (It's in the default
toolchest. Hey, there's your custom background in the list!
Backgrounds set up in this way coexist fine with desktop icons.
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