Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!wam.umd.edu!mikec From: mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: default background scene Message-ID: <1991Apr23.222112.13095@wam.umd.edu> Date: 23 Apr 91 22:21:12 GMT References: <1991Apr23.162616.22465@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET Posting) Organization: University of Maryland at College Park Lines: 52 In article <1991Apr23.162616.22465@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> tgingric@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Tyler S Gingrich) writes: >In article js3b+@andrew.cmu.edu (James Vincent Schultz) writes: >> >>is there a way to get scene to auto-startup and load a specific file to >>use as a background? >> >> >>this first part is, of course, easy. Just click the startup checkbox in >>the dock preferences. >>But to auto load the tiff? >> >Don't use scene. Download the "background" app from Purdue or Oregon State. >Background is yet another neat mini-program from Scott Hess. When you >autolaunch background it automagically loads your .tiff file. > >The _only_ flaw with background is it must be running to display the .tiff -- >obviously, Keith Olhfs (sp?) uses some other neat trick to kill scene & leave >the background. > >Tyler I use background daily, and it does not remain running. It alters the background and disappears! Also, the version I have takes an EPS file by default. You call it from the command line like so: # background -center filename.eps This will center the eps file in the screen and leave it there until you power off the machine or change the background again. I assume that you could put the background command in a .login file or something. I don't think that rc.local would do the trick, since the PostScript server isn't running yet. What I would like to do is write a shell script to pick a file from my graphics directory at random, and put it on the screen. I could put the command in crontab.local, and call it every few hours for variety. I can do the whole thing, except the random part... Any takers? If I have a unique version of background, I'd be more than happy to post it. There are two versions on cs.orst.edu, background, and background2. I'm happy with mine, though, so I haven't checked them out. -- MikeC _________________________________________________________ Michael D. Callaghan, MDC Designs, University of Maryland mikec@wam.umd.edu