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Re: JPEG or GIF background in fvwm?



On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 12:17:43AM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> This is somewhat off-topic, but can anyone point me in the right
> direction to finding out how to use a .gif or .jpeg file as a desktop
> background in fvwm?

For added benefit, and those that like variety, my friend Jake was
learning how to write shell scripts, and likes NASA's images, and
realized that they name their archives in a consistent manner, and so
wrote a cute little script to download a new image from there (example
image at http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980515.html) and display
that on the root screen.  Once run, it unlinks the file and you don't
even need to keep your large collection of pictures!  If you don't like
the one you got, just run the script again.  Or set it to cron.  

Probably 90% of the people on this list could write such a script in
less than 5 minutes, but if you want this one for reference, it's at
http://ben.hartshorne.net/random_space.txt

-ben

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