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From: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (R.L.Hesketh)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: color raster file as root in X11?
Message-ID: <3351@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Dec 89 11:41:38 GMT
References: <7304@cs.yale.edu>
Reply-To: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <7304@cs.yale.edu> spolsky-joel@CS.Yale.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes:
>Is there any way to use a color rasterfile as the root in X11R3? (I'm
>on a sparcstation with an 8bit color monitor). I have these nice color
>scanned images I would like to use as root, but xsetroot only seems to
>know about b/w bitmaps.

Use "xloadimage" by Jim Frost (madd@std.com).  It was posted to comp.sources.x
not so long ago and works very well.  Does a nice job of dithering a greyscale
image on a monochrome screen as well.  It accepts images in a range of
different formats including Sun rasterfiles.


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