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From: grp@magpie.unify.com (Greg Pasquariello)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re:  OpenWindows backgrounds (dammit)
Message-ID: <4w5wjtp@openlook.Unify.Com>
Date: 21 Jan 91 17:41:10 GMT
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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")?

Whats happening is a race condition between the olwm and
the xsetroot.  I am unaware of any resources that will allow you
to do this kind of thing, but I've had success by starting 
olwm first, then, as the very last thing, sleep for a few seconds
and do the xsetroot.  This will allow time for olwm to do it's background,
at which point the xsetroot can run and replace it.

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>Pete Hartman		pwh@bradley.bradley.edu			Haazavaa?
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