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Speek

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Registered: 2005-04-07

Posts: 36

SVG-image as background

Is there a program that can set a SVG image as desktop background?

RaisedFist

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From: Romania

Registered: 2007-01-30

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Re: SVG-image as background

If you are using Gnome, XFCE or KDE you should be able to do this by default, as far as I know.

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Speek

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Registered: 2005-04-07

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Re: SVG-image as background

I'm using icewm.

Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Re: SVG-image as background

Does icewm have any gui for this at all?

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Speek

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Registered: 2005-04-07

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Re: SVG-image as background

No, it doesn't have a GUI for setting the background. You can specify a background image in the preferences file, but SVG isn't supported. That's why I'm looking for a seperate app.

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

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Re: SVG-image as background

you can use display (it's part of imagemagick)
$ display -window root file.svg

Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

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Re: SVG-image as background

Or use feh, which supports fake transparency.

feh --bg-scale picture.svg

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emmybear

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Registered: 2007-04-20

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Re: SVG-image as background

There is also hsetroot as well, which has a sole purpose of setting backgrounds. xD There are lots of other little background setting things around. hehe

Speek

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Registered: 2005-04-07

Posts: 36

Re: SVG-image as background

Thanks! Feh and hsetroot both use imlib2, which doesn't support SVG. Display works fine though.