On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:17:40AM -0400, jeffrey@jeffreyf.net wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a simple program to display a background
> picture in the root of X? If I recall right, XV can do this but
> I was wondering what else other people would suggest.

xli might help you. It has a command called xsetbg which will do what 
you want. It's in the NetBSD packages collection (graphics/xli).

best wishes,
Chris