Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!voder!pyramid!unify!openlook!openlook-request From: miken@Corp.Sun.COM (Michael Neff) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: OpenWindows backgrounds (dammit) Message-ID: Date: 22 Jan 91 00:16:12 GMT Lines: 35 >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. It's not documented very well, but you can add a resource to your .Xdefaults file to keep olwm from drawing a background color. Add the following line: olwm.WorkspaceColor: Please note that you should have the line exactly as above with no value ( null ). Also note that this isn't the same resource as Openwindows.WorkspaceColor, which is the resource which the main Properties sheet sets. By using the above resource as shown, olwm will start behaving like twm and other window managers and leave the root background alone. I think this is what you want. Mike Neff miken@corp.sun.com >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")? >-- >----- >Pete Hartman pwh@bradley.bradley.edu Haazavaa? >