Backdrops in .xpm format

[Neal Haslam]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 18:02:10 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Neal Haslam wrote:
> 
> > If you can't get the .xpm to work.  You can still use them as .jpg. 
> > 
> > Those great images of penguins are all .jpg format and they are
> > fantastic on my 1280x1024 screen... especially the 'drink box xp'
> > image.
> 
>   OK, I've progress to report. Not complete success, but definite
>   progress.
> 
>   Someone, and I apologize for forgetting who, suggested that I could
> convert the format from .jpg to .xpm just by renaming the file. Well,
> by golly, that works! As far as The GIMP is concerned, anyway. I
> copied the file and could view the .xpm version just fine.
> 
>   However, xfce still tells me that I have an invalid file format when
>   I try
> to use it as a backdrop. Could this be a function of the file size?
> It's about 141K.
> 
Rich,
Are we talking about the same file?  XFtree says that TuXperience~1.jpg
is 173 KB.

-- 
Neal
Registered Linux User #159445, Libranet Linux 2.0/ext3/XFce
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