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From: schwengeler@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: root-window (DECwindows)
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.151249.1421@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 6 Mar 91 14:12:49 GMT
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
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Dear knowledgeable X_gurus,

I'd like to load an X11 bitmap file into the root window on my
VAXstation 3500 runnung under VMS V5.4-1 and DECwindows.
I use the program xloadimage which works fine for displaying
the image in a window. Appearently, DECwindows has over its
real root window some pseudo-root window which hides everything
uder it. When using "$ xloadimage -onroot imgae.xbm", the
image gets loaded correctly, but nothing can be seen until
logout (from the Session Manager). Then you will see briefly
the image which was hidden all the time.
Now I would like to get the image into the pseudo-root or
else delete the pseudo-root so that the real root window comes
to front. How do you achieve this? There's surely a way to fiddle
these windows?

Any hints appreciated.

					Yours, Hans Schwengeler
					schwengeler@urz.unibas.ch