>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.

xv -geometry `xdpyinfo | awk '/dimensions/{print$2;exit}'` \
	 -rmode 5 -quit <picture>

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