What ever happened?

[Collins Richey]

On 26 Jan 2003 00:41:43 +0100
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 00:35, Collins Richey wrote:
> > On 26 Jan 2003 00:18:36 +0100
> > Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 00:13, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > > > Very nice.  So how does one setup backdrops in xfce4 (up and
> > > > > running now from todays cvs verion)?
> > > > 
> > > > xfbd4
> > > 
> > > Naaaahh! It's deprecated!!
> > > 
> > > Use "xfce-setting-show backdrop"
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks, but this is too cryptic.  Where does this go?
> > ~/.xfdeskmenurc ?~/.xfce4/settings ?  For example, I've downloaded
> > ~/XFCE_simple_night_1024.png.  How to get this as backdrop?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> 
> You don't have to do anything but typing what I said... As long as you
> run xfdesktop, obviously.
> 
> You can run just "xfce-setting-show" and choose backdrop in the list,
> or even left click on the root window and select "Settings manager"
> 
> But where the config file resides won't be of any help - It's not
> intended to be changed by hand. xfdeskmenu is deprecated, xfbd4 is
> deprecated too.
> 

Wow, lots of stuff I never knew existed!  Ok, I've done that and
selected a backdrop, but it does not appear.  Any ideas?


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Collins Richey - Denver Area
Athlon-XP gentoo 1.4_rc2++ system