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From: rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Color background for X-windows
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.210550.410@dsd.es.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 21:05:50 GMT
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In article <1991Mar20.163036.28305@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
	williams@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Gus Williams) writes:
>Is X11R4 able to display color bitmaps in the xsetroot commmand?

No.  Currently there is no consortium blessed format for color images
(pixmaps really; bitmaps are 1-bit deep pixmaps).

There is a group working on a format called "XPM" and a library for
working with pixmap files.  They have a mailing list (whose name
escapes me for the moment).

>or any other way to display color bitmaps in the background?

xv will display color images into your root window.  The version I saw
knew about X11 bitmaps, Compu$erve GIF, and PBM files.  It is
available by anonymous FTP on export.lcs.mit.edu.

						-- Rich
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