Frederick,

xli was EXACTLY what I wanted :)

To all: Thanks again for the speedy response :)

Phil.

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:57:29 -0500 (CDT)
Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Phil Pereira wrote:
> 
> > I'm playing with the window manager ctwm, and X4.3 at the mo. What
> > I'd like to know is does anyone know of an application in "pkgsrc"
> > which simply displays a background image (jpg/tiff/etc.) in the main
> > X window, and that the window manager can work ontop of.
> 
> You mean the "root" window? There are a bunch: "asroot", which is part
> of afterstep, "display" which is part of ImageMagick..., but my
> favorite, for this purpose is "xli --onroot --fullscreen"; "xli" is
> the name of the package. "xli" can only do png/jpeg/gif; "display" is
> probably the only one of those that can do tiff's.
> 
> Frederick
> 


-- 
Phil.
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