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WarMocK · Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 169

Heyho people,
since I am working on an experimental user interface for a gaming distro I needed a tool to show a wallpaper that does not ship an icon grid and a file manager with it (sorry ROX). So I used the GTK API and wrote a tiny binary on my own: pic2root.
The tool runs from the commandline and is easy to use:
pic2root /path/to/imagefile
The specified image is scaled and stretched automatically to meetthe screen resolution and finally rendered onto the desktop's root window. So if you need a simple and small wallpaper setter, here you are. Have fun with it. Very Happy

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1285 Location: Ukraine

Dear WarMocK,

Could you kindly post the source - no matter what shape it is in - and your compile line. I want to compile it for older puppies and test it out. It will not run, for example, in puppy 3.01:

WarMocK · Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 169

Sure. Here you go.

compiled with the following options:

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1285 Location: Ukraine

Dear WarMock,

Thanks. I had to change the compile line (-o bit) Smile

, and it compiled fine. However, I get a runtime segfault. I also just compiled this little thing for setting the root image which hs many, many options. Have a look. It is, stripped, some 4x larger than your little prog, but seems to do a great deal. Have a look....

harii4 · Posted: Sat 26 Mar 2011, 12:14 Post subject:

i get the same errors with pic2root?

xsri or pic2root - how do i get it to keep changes at next boot up? Confused

Bernie_by_the_Sea · Joined: 09 Feb 2011 Posts: 329

Using xsri with Wary 500 I get wallpaper ONLY inside urxvt.

What is a root image anyway?

It does persist inside urxvt so where is the root image located so I can get rid of it?

harii4 · Posted: Sat 26 Mar 2011, 14:19 Post subject:

Bernie_by_the_Sea · Joined: 09 Feb 2011 Posts: 329

WarMocK · Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 169

Bernie_by_the_Sea:
You are using ROX, which draws a frameless window over the root window and puts a background image into it as a wallpaper. If you see the wallpaper drawn onto the root window (either by pic2root or xsri) this means that either the ROX pinboard (the wallpaper window) isn't properly configured, or urxvt doesn't recognize the pinboard as the "root window" of your desktop.
Check out if the checkboxes for "Blackbox root menus hack" and "Override window manager control of pinboard and panels" are clicked.

Bernie_by_the_Sea · Joined: 09 Feb 2011 Posts: 329