xfwm4 background

[Mike Massonnet]

Le Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:55:11 +0100,
Ulli Horlacher <framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de> a écrit :

> On Thu 2009-03-05 (12:47), Stefan Stuhr wrote:
> 
> > > I'm using xfwm4 as standalone window manager (ie. I don't
> > > use the rest of the xfce applications). My question is if
> > > and how I can display a background image (I tried to set
> > > a bg image on the X11 root window using xv -root, but
> > > when xfwm4 starts, the background becomes solid grey).
> > 
> > You are using the compositor in Xfwm4, so you will need a desktop
> > manager. Xfdesktop is the desktop manager that comes with Xfce.
> 
> I have a similar problem: I want to run xplanet which continously
> draws images on the root window. But I cannot see it, because the
> xfce desktop backround is front, but I want the xfdesktop menus, too.
> 
> In fvwm this was possible, both.
> 


# xfce-Background-ID
ID=$(xprop -root xfce_DESKTOP_WINDOW | cut -d ' ' -f 5
xplanet -XID ${ID}

That used to work for me.

Mike