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Hi there,
I can't set my wallpaper in IceWM. No matter whether I use icebgset or edit ~/.icewm/preferences manually, there's still the default theme background as desktop wallpaper. How do I change that?
TIA,
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Should be trivial, imho. I never had problems with this one. Best post your startup and preferences files.
I have in preferences.
# icewmbg preferences
#
# IMPORTANT: You MUST run icewmbg (probably before icewm)
# to set the background!
#
# Display desktop background centered and not tiled
DesktopBackgroundCenter=0 # 0/1
# Support for semitransparent terminals like Eterm or gnome-terminal
# SupportSemitransparency=1 # 0/1
# Desktop background scaled to full screen
# DesktopBackgroundScaled=0 # 0/1
# Desktop background color
DesktopBackgroundColor = "rgb:00/20/40"
# Desktop background image
DesktopBackgroundImage = "/home/bp/.icewm/IceWMBackgroundImage.img"
# Color to announce for semi-transparent windows
# DesktopTransparencyColor=""
# Image to announce for semi-transparent windows
# DesktopTransparencyImage=""
Do you run a desktop manager, by chance? They tend to do the background stuff by themselves.
I run IDesk, but do not use their background capability in my .ideskrc:
table Config
FontName: Sans
FontSize: 9
FontColor: #ffffff
Locked: false
Transparency: 40
Shadow: true
ShadowColor: #000000
ShadowX: 1
ShadowY: 2
Bold: false
ClickDelay: 200
IconSnap: true
SnapWidth: 50
SnapHeight: 50
SnapOrigin: BottomRight
SnapShadow: true
SnapShadowTrans: 200
CaptionOnHover: false
end
table Actions
Lock: control right doubleClk
Reload: control left doubleClk
Drag: control middle hold
EndDrag: control middle singleClk
Execute[0]: left singleClk
Execute[1]: right singleClk
end
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try using an external program to set wallpapers like feh or nitrogen.
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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The readme says you must run "icewmbg" for activation of wallpaper
It worked fine for me
Last edited by Mammut (2009-12-17 17:58:50)
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i ve had the same problem but you can set a wallpaper using xv
add this line in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc just before "exec icewm"
xv -root -quit -max /home/keen/wallpapers/image.jpg
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