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From: dbrooks@penge.osf.org (David Brooks)
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Subject: Re: Request for pictures
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Date: 3 Nov 90 16:48:30 GMT
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On 2 Nov 90 , harrism@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com wrote:
>I know how to xsetroot -bitmap stars.xbm -bg red -fg green 
>to set the root background to a 2 color picture.
>
>Does anyone know how to display a multicolor picture?

Jim Frost's xloadimage program (available from your usual X source)
will load a picture in the background, in just about any format.  GIF
is the best because of the builtin compression.

Two caveats: you can't load a picture that will monopolize the root
colormap.  xloadimage will do a color reduction on the fly if you ask
it.  And, as you're creating a large pixmap, your system will tend to
thrash more when you move windows around.

>If so, do you have any pictures?

Ah.  Not so long ago, there were many ftp sites with images.  Too many
people found that some of those images involved people with fewer than
the canonical number of clothes, and the sites got inundated with
requests and awkward questions from the authorities.  So some of these
sites have gone away.

You might try
a.cs.uiuc.edu              128.174.5.20
dsl.cis.upenn.edu          130.91.6.12
hubcap.clemson.edu         192.5.219.1
ssyx.ucsc.edu              128.114.133.1
surya.waterloo.edu         129.97.129.72
but this list is over a year old.
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