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From: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
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Subject: Re: color raster file as root in X11?
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Date: 5 Dec 89 16:49:52 GMT
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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.

Yes, it's called xgifroot, which, as you might surmise, requires gif format
files.  Use pbm(plus) to convert your tiff files to gif.

Chewey, get us outta here!
                 
kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov             (818)354-8771
Kaleb Keithley