Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:18:19AM -0800, Xucaen wrote:
> 
> --- brian moore <bem@cmc.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:40:30AM -0800,
> > Xucaen wrote:
> > 
> > > I made new.bmp using gimp.
> > > any clues?
> > 
> > Yes.  '.bmp' is almost certainly a Windows
> > bitmap.  That's not what X
> 
> even if I create it from scratch with gimp? 

Yes, it's a Windows Bitmaap file.  (Just like a .DOC file would be a
Word file, even if some other program exported it.)

> > wants.  (X bitmaps are typically named '.xbm',
> > and are two-color.)
> > 
> > > I get "unable to open file" errors when I try
> > to
> > > use xmp files.
> > 
> > If you want to set the background to a color
> > image, use a color image
> > format (like jpeg, gif, xpm, whatever) and:
> > 
> >   xli image.jpeg
> > 
> > (xli is in the 'xli' package.)
> > 
> 
> I don't know what xli is. I looked for it using
> apt-cache search xli but didn't find anything.
> what is xli? is it some sort of image converter?

It should certainly be there.  It's included in potato, woody and sid,
and it's old enough to probably be in slink as well.

Package: xli
Priority: optional
Section: graphics
Installed-Size: 310
Maintainer: James R. Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.16-12
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), libpng2, libz1, xlib6g (>= 3.3.5)
Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/graphics/xli_1.16-12.deb
Size: 156254
MD5sum: a819bd8b7b76b2d5a02044a59f7a293d
Description: view images under X11
 Can view the following image types under X11: FBM Image, Sun
 Rasterfile, CMU WM Raster, Portable Bit Map (PBM, PGM, PPM), Portable
 Network Graphics (PNG), Faces Project, GIF Image, JFIF style jpeg
 Image, Utah RLE Image, Windows, OS/2 RLE Image, Photograph on CD
 Image, X Window Dump, Targa Image, McIDAS areafile, G3 FAX Image, PC
 Paintbrush Image, GEM Bit Image, MacPaint Image, X Pixmap, X Bitmap.

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