On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 14:35, James Strandboge wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 03:33, David Fokkema wrote: > > > This is becoming painful. I think I will submit a wishlist bug or > > something... > > This is what I do to change the root window with all of gnome enabled > (nautilus, etc): > gconftool -t str -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename ~/bg.jpg > > Therefore, you can do something like this for xplanet: > xplanet -blend -output ~/bg.jpg -geometry 1024x768 > gconftool -t str -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename ~/bg.jpg > > Another useful option is: > gconftool -t str -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_options > "centered|scaled|stretched|wallpaper" > > where you pick oe of centered, scaled, stretched or wallpaper. > > Jamie
I'll try that out, thanks! But why can't you just tell gnome not to cover the root window? WindowMaker works perfectly, <sigh> David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]