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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: background screen loader
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Date: 13 Oct 90 07:13:37 GMT
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In article <9044@milton.u.washington.edu> wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis) writes:
>In article <18600009@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> brownfld@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>     Is there a way to change the background picture from the Unix shell,
>>e.g. without being on console?  It would be nice to have a timed background
>   There's a shell script that does this, named "background" (appropriately
>enough), on the archives. Probably in the binaries directory.

background does not quite the right thing. If you move your menu off
the screen with a correct default setting and rely on the right mouse
button to pop up the menues, it won't work if the mouse cursor is
above the new background. This problem does not occur with Scene.app
Thus the two do not do the same thing unfortunately.

Ronald
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