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From: etaylor@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Eric Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Colored background for X11R3
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Date: 18 Dec 90 16:18:39 GMT
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In article <597@fuhainf.UUCP>, ironduke@fuhainf2.uucp writes:
|> 
|> Hi there !
|> 
|> a simple problem:
|> 
|> is it possible to read a 16-color-picture into the X-windows-background.
|> 
|> it's easy to use blach/white pictures as background, using
|> 'setroot -bitmap ..', but very slow. 
|> 
|> perhaps anybody constructed a better solution.
|> 
|> i use windows 11 Release 3 on a 386-AT with interactive-unix release 2.0.2.
|> 
|> thanks in advance

It is always possible.  You can always create a pixmap from an image
and use XSetWindowBackgroundPixmap or whatever it is.

If it is slow to use xsetroot, however,  (which I entirely believe
given the type of machine you described), I doubt that anything would
be faster.
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