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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: background pictures?
Message-ID: <1990Aug15.231824.1033@wrl.dec.com>
Date: 15 Aug 90 23:18:24 GMT
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In article <1990Aug15.212315.8879@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, dhsu@Neon.Stanford.EDU
(David Hsu) writes:
|> I was wondering if it is possible to put a picture in the background. 

The usual procedure for doing this is to convert your image into an X
pixmap, make this the background pixmap of your screen's root window,
then clear the root window to force the server to display it.  There
are several programs that automate this, using images of most popular
formats.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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