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test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

ion3: how to get a background image?

I'm not talking about a transparent xterm, but when i don't have any application open i see an image. The only solution iv'e got to work involves a compositor and i can't run that because of efficiency reasons

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codemac

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From: Cliche Tech Place

Registered: 2005-05-13

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Re: ion3: how to get a background image?

but when i don't have any application open i see an image.

To me it sounds like your background image is working...

But if you must know, feh --bg-{tile,center,scale,seamless} pic.jpg works, xsetbg pic.jpg works.

If you are talking about having transparent frames in your look.lua, you need to set that yourself, or use a look.lua file that all ready has that.

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test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: ion3: how to get a background image?

yeah i'm sorry about this: i figured it out a moment after posting.

the solution was:

de.defstyle("frame", {
    transparent_background = true,
    based_on = "*",
    padding_colour = "#545d75",
    background_colour = "black",
--    de.substyle("active", {
--        shadow_colour = "grey",
--        highlight_colour = "grey",
--        padding_colour = "#545d75",
--        background_colour = "black",
--    }),
})

in look_clean.lua which is the team i use. AND:

defwinprop{
        transparent = true,
}

in cfg_kludges.lua

so all is fine now.. setting a root window image i know.. i even have a package in aur to do it fer chriss sakes

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T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: ion3: how to get a background image?

xsetbg pic.jpg works.

I don't have xsetbg on my machine. Can someone tell me which modular xorg package this is in or if it has changed what the new name is?

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: ion3: how to get a background image?

xsetbg pic.jpg works.

I don't have xsetbg on my machine. Can someone tell me which modular xorg package this is in or if it has changed what the new name is?

It's part of xloadimage in AUR.

EDIT:  xsetbg is a symlink to xloadimage