On Monday 20 May 2002 09:47 am, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On May 20, 2002 09:17 am, 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.

Build the ImageMagick suite in pkgsrc, then you can do something
like: 

display -size 1280x1024 -window root foo.png

ImageMagick is greate for other stuff like web hacking and photo
retouching as well.  It's sort of like a command line Photoshop
or Gimp.