jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

[Xucaen <xucaen@yahoo.com>]

--- Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>
wrote:
> > ============================================
> > xucaen@whitestar:~$ ls
> > aim.xpm  new.bmp  test  test.xpm
> > xucaen@whitestar:~$ xsetroot -bitmap
> ~/new.bmp
> > xsetroot: bad bitmap format file:
> > /home/xucaen/new.bmp
> > xucaen@whitestar:~$
> > ============================================
> > I made new.bmp using gimp.
> > any clues?
> 
> Why not use something like "jpeg" instead ??
> 
> Hall
> 

I just tried it and I got an error message saying
"bad bitmap format file"


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