Thanks (Re: JPEG or GIF background in fvwm?)

[Marc Shapiro <m_shapiro@bigfoot.com>]

Jussi,

Thank you.  Your method, using xv, works just fine.  I had looked into
xsetroot, but it seems to only work on bitmaps.  When I tried
xloadimage, it wanted to convert my .jpeg files to B/W.  Since I already
have xv I tried your method and it does just what I need it to do (now
that I found the html version of the manual and the root options). 
Other suggestions were display, wmsetbg, esetroot, and chbg.  These
might work, as well, but, since I already have xv I will stick with it.

Thanks, again.

Marc

Jussi Ekholm <ekhowl@goa-head.org> wrote:
>
> I use xv to set it up. I made the following "script";
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> xv -root -max -quit $1
> 
> And then I put the following line in my ~/.xsession;
> 
> foo.sh foo.jpg
> 
> So the shell script executes xv and changes the background picture to
> my fvwm's desktop. But, I think other people will inform you about
> better and more convenient options. I just felt like throwing my 2
> cents on the table. :-)
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