xfwm4 background

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> 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.

Then tell xplanet to draw on xfdesktop's window.  This has been 
discussed many times on this ML before, and elsewhere on the web. 
Google is your friend.

	-brian