Backdrops in .xpm format

[Russ Pitman]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:02:10PM -0700, Rich Shepard 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich
It was me/I? sorry it fails for you,that hack was fine on my system,debian
ustable, but now I am using the .deb version of 3.8.16-3 and it doesn't 
have any probs with .jpg backdrops.
Can't offer much more.

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