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From: cristy@eplrx7.uucp (John Cristy)
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Subject: Re: xloadimage -onroot
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Date: 4 Oct 90 21:05:48 GMT
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In article <9010041412.AA02689@armory> you write:
>|When I do an xloadimage -onroot, how do I later free and get rid of
>|the pixmap on the root window?
>

I addressed this same problem with my X image utilities (ImageMagick).

To fix xloadimage, change in root.c

#define RETAIN_PROP_NAME "XA_XLOADIMAGE_COLORS_XID"

to

#define RETAIN_PROP_NAME "_XSETROOT_ID"

xsetroot will then properly free the pixmap resources of xloadimage.

cristy@dupont.com
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