How to set wallpaper in X

riceboy50 · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2002 Posts: 48 Location: Southern CA

I know how to set the wallpaper in Gnome but I am playing with just window managers in X and wondered how I can change the wallpaper from that ugly gray pattern? I'm using Waimea right now if it is window manager specific.
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reves · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 2:44 am Post subject:

There are several commands you could use. xsetroot, xsetbgimg, bsetbg, bsetroot, and Esetroot are some examples. Check out their man pages for more info.
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riceboy50 · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2002 Posts: 48 Location: Southern CA

Well then I have a different problem... when I run waimea it starts up just fine except it returns the error "Esetroot: command not found".
How can I fix this?
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woboz · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 65

I believe Esetroot is in the Eterm ebuild.

riceboy50 · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2002 Posts: 48 Location: Southern CA

I think it's just Waimea is broken because all the other window managers I have come with at least a solid color background by default. I think this is an indication that I need to stay away from Waimea for a few more builds. Fluxbox seems nice, any other suggestions?
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riquito · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 93

Waimea isn't broken or anything else.
Don't go away.

Waimea needs Esetroot (or a similar program) to have a background image.
Esetroot doesn't come with Waimea, beacause it's part of "Eterm"
So you must install Eterm in order to use Esetroot

ah, the line where set Esetroot with a choosen background is inside the ".style" file that you want to use

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riceboy50 · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2002 Posts: 48 Location: Southern CA

Once I emerged eterm and re-emerged waimea then it came up with a wallpaper graphic. It seems like eterm should be one of the dependencies in the waimea ebuild... Anyway thanks for your help

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Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

FYI: Esetroot is part of the bbrb package. you will have to emerge it.
I dont think it has any dependcies for it so it should be fine.

you can probably also use xv although I have not tried it. Basically you need something that can display an image. xsetroot which comes with X does great with solid color backgrounds and can also do bitmaps. I have found that Esetroot can also display jpg format which is what I use.

Make sure that in your waimea style file that you have the right command set otherwise you will have the ugly grey background.

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

P.S. If you are using XDM for your login and have that plain gray background,you can change it by editing the Xsetup_0 file. It is located int /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0

Here is an article that shows how to customize xdm

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3325