Re: background utility question

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:57:07 -0400
David Williamson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is this list actually up and running?  At least one of my posts never
> made it, and I'm hardly seeing any posts at all.

i'm pretty sure your previous post made it to the list. one reason for
the missing answer is that few people have your setup? although not all
want to have different wallpaper on their heads, but i can only guess
into the blue. my guess is to join #fluxbox on the freenode network and
ask there since you definitely find more people reading the chat than
the mailing lists. maybe you find someone with similar issues.


> 
> I'm using 1.0rc2 via the Ubuntu deb, on an nvidia twinview system.
> Overall I'm loving it.   But the one thing I can't figure out how to
> do well is come up with a way of changing my root window backgrounds,
> periodically (like every few minutes) to different pictures for each
> head - not the same image for each head, and not one image stretched
> across each head.
> 
> wmsetbg allows me to set one image in EACH head, instead of stretching
> across BOTH heads, and that's nice, but that's the closest I've come.
> A little shell script rotates through a directory of images but
> again, it's the same image in each root window.  I guess I'm trying to
> find some twinview-aware utility to change the root window. KDE has a
> kslideshow.kss screensaver that works pretty well, at least in KDE,
> and can be made to work in fluxbox, but I'd rather use another
> utility that doesn't force me to use kslideshow.kss --setup to tell
> it what images I want to display.  And XFCE does the twinview root
> window thing pretty well too. But I can't find anything specifically
> for fluxbox, or generically for any window manager out there.
> 
> Can someone point me to some twinview-aware apps perhaps?
> 
> Or, even, tell me a little bit about how to tell an application to do
> something in one head versus the other?  I've mapped a key to move
> apps from one head to another using the new sethead command ... and
> that's neat ... but I think only fluxbox recognizes that command,
> right?
> 
> Also, am I reading correctly that the setroot command in styles is now
> completely ignored, no matter what?  I cannot make it work, and I've
> googled a bit and it seems it may have been a security issue.
> 
> Thanks - and I hope this message makes it to the list.
> 
> dave w
> 
> 
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