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From: dastrout@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (root@next1)
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Subject: Re: X Backgrounds -> NeXT Backrounds?
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Date: 4 Aug 90 14:52:29 GMT
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> I have a lot ( about 50 ) digitized images that I
> use as  backgounds in X windows (via the ``xsetroot -bitmap'' command).
> 
> Any idea how to convert them so that they can be used as NeXTStep backgrounds?
> (and, any idea how to convert the NeXT backgrounds (like the Eye) to X form?)
> 
> Ideally, I'd like to have some analog of the xsetroot command, that would tile
> the NeXT background with the images, if they don't fill it completely.
> 
Try displaying them under XNeXT, then do a screen grab under Scene, in NextDev-
eloper/demos.  Also, isn't here a prog to do the conversion under XNeXT?  (I'm
not at any of my machines, at the moment, else I'd look myself)  Finally, there
is a program called background, which is on the standard servers, which will
load a TIFF in as the background.  Just put background -f fname in your .cshrc.
If you can't find it, let me know, as I've got it here.
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Dave Strout
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