xffm-deskview

[Mr Machine]

On 8/11/05, Edscott Wilson Garcia <edscott at xfce.org> wrote:
> 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".

cool - this works well :)

shayne