Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bu.edu!wang!mike From: mike@wang.com (Mike Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Re: color bitmaps for xsetroot Message-ID: Date: 2 Jan 91 13:54:20 GMT References: <9012291839.AA03717@lta.com> Distribution: inet Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 19 david@lta.com (David B. Lewis) writes: >In article <3392@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, uunet!tmc.edu!etaylor (Eric Taylor) writes: >|> There is no such thing as a 'color' bitmap. >I didn't see the original, but the Subject line asked for "color bitmaps for >xsetroot." I don't know who posted the question, but this might be the answer. >There are at least two patches to xsetroot that will permit doing this. The first I also did not see the original, the recently posted XV graphics file viewer GIF, PCX etc, allows the output to go to the root, ( Even on my SCO box ! ) ( Xloadimage did the same for color xterms, but not for SCO's X. ) -- ________________________ / __ \ | Michael J. Sullivan |ec.lec.tic adj Choosing | \ \ / /\ |\ | / ` | | Wang Laboratories Inc. |or consisting of what | \/ \/ /--\ | \| \__T | | mike@WANG.COM |appears to be the best \________________________/ | |from diverse sources.