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archguest

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Registered: 2010-07-29

Posts: 12

displaying wallpaper (display -backdrop ...) problem

I am trying to use display from ImageMagick 6.6.2-10 to show this image from Arch linux in the centre of my desktop. I run it with:

display -backdrop -background '#3f3f3f' -flatten -window root Downloads/archlinux-logo-light-90dpi.png

I get the image displayed in the centre of my root window (desktop) but my -background option is ignored for both within and outside of the image. Within the image I get white in place of transparency 'checkboard' and outside I get black.

I read the documentation for display and I can't figure out what is wrong.

What I would like to achieve is to display this image in the centre of my root window, on the background colour #3f3f3f with transparent parts of the image being transparent that is being #3f3f3f. I run xmonad if it makes any difference. Please help.

kekules_dream

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Registered: 2009-05-19

Posts: 102

Re: displaying wallpaper (display -backdrop ...) problem

Hi. Welcome to the forum.  I couldn't get display to do it either.  I would just make it in gimp (create a file with dimensions of your monitor), put

sh ~/.fehbg &

in your .xinitrc

and then

feh --bg-scale 'path-to/Wallpapers/arch-forum/arch-logo-on-3f3f3f.png'

In fact I did that.  looks good.  Thanks.

kd

Last edited by kekules_dream (2010-07-30 12:48:08)