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From: yba@sword.bellcore.com (Mark Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Problem with client xsetroot
Keywords: xsetroot, bitmaps
Message-ID: <981@sword.bellcore.com>
Date: 9 Feb 89 18:13:11 GMT
References: <11629@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: yba@sword.bellcore.com (Mark Levine)
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Organization: Bellcore, Red Bank NJ
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In article <11629@swan.ulowell.edu> jturmell@hawk.ulowell.edu (Jeff Turmelle) writes:
>
>	I am running X11 R3 on a GPX running Ultrix.  When I use the 
>     xsetroot -bitmap for a full screen bitmap (such as fullmoon.gpx, etc.)
>     the bitmap will never come up.  However, if I kill the window manager
>     (uwm) it will come up within a minute or so.  Also, in order to kill

I have found with uwm running that I can tile the root window (using 'xroot'),
but that it _does_ lock up the server completely for several _minutes_.  After
that all function is restored.  I guess the time is spent making an in-core
8-bit deep pixmap.  In any case, it works with uwm for me under R3 on the GPX.

Note that the DECwindows server will _not_ tile the same fullmoon (".dmp.Z) --
it will report insufficient resources and give up.

I got the xpix/xroot images from Mark Eichin at Project Athena.  What is the
source of "fullmoon.gpx" here?  Is anyone else trying large bitmaps with
DECwindows?