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From: holtz@netcord.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Holtz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: OpenWindows backgrounds (dammit)
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Date: 19 Jan 91 19:37:52 GMT
References: <1991Jan19.005427.24901@bradley.bradley.edu>
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In article <1991Jan19.005427.24901@bradley.bradley.edu> you write:

>the documentation doesn't mention any kind of resources for the "Workspace"
>except "WorkspaceColor" which (as I understand it) is useless.

If you put the absolute path of an X bitmap file as this resource's value,
that bitmap will be your background.  My only problem with this is that
olwm then assigns a random color as the background of my icons.  So in my
.xinitrc I do

(sleep 60; xsetroot -bitmap ${HOME}/bitmaps/arecibo.half.xbm) &
--
Brian Holtz