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From: pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: OpenWindows backgrounds (dammit)
Summary: I'm beginning to hate open windows
Message-ID: <1991Jan19.005427.24901@bradley.bradley.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 91 00:54:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Bradley University
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Well, I just got accustomed to the idea that my monochrome SLC just
won't do that nifty 3d-look that I like so much, and started working
on how to get the background to be set to a bitmap pattern.  Under
normal X (previously compiled X11R4), I just had a line in my .xinitrc:
"xsetroot -bitmap $PATH/bitmapname".  Real Easy.  Under Sun's OpenWindows
V2.0, I put this ANYWHERE (.xinitrc, .openwin-init) and sure enough,
the bitmap comes up, only to be replaced moments later by this nondescript
grey background.  If I type the command by hand in one of my xterm windows
everything is fine, but I want this to come up automatically.  Of course,
the documentation doesn't mention any kind of resources for the "Workspace"
except "WorkspaceColor" which (as I understand it) is useless.

Is there something that I'm just too blind to see, or is this thing really
designed so bass-ackwards that you can't customize your background 
automatically (unless of course you like solid "colors")?
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Pete Hartman		pwh@bradley.bradley.edu			Haazavaa?