muppysetbg (simple, very fast background, e.g. for conky)

[MU]

Puppys wallpaper is managed by "Rox-Pinboard".
If you use a application like conky, you get a strange effect.
Conky uses the ROOT-window behind Rox, to grab the wallpaper.
So that must be set by another application, Puppy 3 provided "qiv" for that.

qiv was designed as a viewer, so it is a bit slow.
I also found out, that it does not work in compiz fusion.
Another good one (wmsetbg) just crashed Rox now.

So I wrote muppysetbg, that uses code from the Puppybackgroundsetter.

Written in C, depends only on Gtk2/Gdk-Pixbuf/Xlib.
It is important, that the picture has the exact size of your desktop already.
This is the case in Puppy 3.

Usage:

muppysetbg /root/Choices/ROX-background.jpg
The archive contains binary and source:

Muppy-SetBG/compile.sh
Muppy-SetBG/muppysetbg.c
Muppy-SetBG/muppysetbg

Tested in Muppy0084 (Gtk 2.12.9).
Mark

[Wolf Pup]

Hey MU, muppysetbg works in 301 but in dingo alpha 5 it gives me a "Segmentation Fault".

[ARAN]

a another possiblity is using xli.

xli can be easy downloaded as source to puppy and compiled as the root window setter.

http://www.t2-project.org/packages/xli.html

[MU]

you should be able to compile a new binary in Puppy 4 by typing:

cd Muppy-SetBG
./compile.sh

It needs just 5 sconds to compile.
Also make sure, that the background exits, I think Puppy 4 no longer uses ROX-background.jpg.

Mark

[Wolf Pup]

you should be able to compile a new binary in Puppy 4 by typing:

cd Muppy-SetBG
./compile.sh

It needs just 5 sconds to compile.
Also make sure, that the background exits, I think Puppy 4 no longer uses ROX-background.jpg.

Mark

compiled in dingo alpha5, still gives a "Segmentation Fault".