xffm-deskview

[Edscott Wilson Garcia]

El mié, 10-08-2005 a las 19:25 +1000, Mr Machine escribió:
> sorry for all these questions (i'm writing an xfce how-to for some 
> friends whom i've xfce'd, in preparation for the next release) ...
> 
> was hoping someone could clear up a few queries about xffm-deskview (and 
> most recent kid on the block, xffm-desktop) ... i read from the dev-blog 
> that there was some screwiness with setting the background with 
> xffm-deskview. apparently it will grab it only when it has been set 
> *after* deskview starts. i've tried this with xsetbg, but no go ... if 
> however i kill xffm-deskview, start xfdesktop, then restart 
> xffm-deskview, open "desktop settings", tick and untick the "show image" 
> button, i get xffm-deskview plus my background. but then if i save the 
> session on exit, it don't give me the same setup on logging in (i have 
> to basically go through the above steps again). is there a better way to 
> do this, or is this still being worked on?

Just checked on xsetbg (or xloadimage) and it does not keep the root
pixmap around on exit. Unfortunately this means it will not work to set
the background for xffm-deskview. Better use "fvwm-root -r". 


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