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From: yakker@ucrmath.UCR.EDU (The Rastafari Yakker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: setting a root window background picture
Message-ID: <1364@ucrmath.UCR.EDU>
Date: 4 Aug 89 03:14:37 GMT
References: <43595@bbn.COM> <118889@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: yakker@ucrmath.UUCP (The Rastafari Yakker)
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>In article <43595@bbn.COM> franco@bbn.com (Frank A. Lonigro) writes:
> 	What are some of the ways for taking an X11 bitmap file and using
> that as my root window background picture?  I looked at xsetroot, but the
> man page says that it will use the bitmap to "tile" the background, which
> is not what I want.

If you want to put a large (1152x900)bitmap into the background, and it is
for a Sun console workstation, I would suggest using xbgsun, a little program
written to put Sun rasterfiles into the background.  It can be obtained from
gatekeeper.dec.com, in /pub/comp.sources.x/xbgsun directory.  It's really
handy to use.

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