Gnome root window...

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:54:15 PDT
Ken Ambrose said:

>Does anyone know either:
>
>a) a utility to do what I want to do, or
>b) failing that, where I should look to write the code?  Preferably in
>   Perl (I know there are Perl hooks in Gnome).

How about 'xsetroot'.  I believe this utility comes with the standard 
X package.  I've been using it for years from within my .xsession and 
.xinitrc file(s)

You can also do some neat cursor tricks.  Try this :)

	xsetroot -cursor_name trek 

For other cursor names check out /usr/include/X11/cursorfont.h

There really aren't any exciting cursors, however, you can create 
your own and save it in a bitmap file from what I saw in the man page 
for xsetroot.

Hope that helps!
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Seeya,
Paul
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