Gnome root window...

[pll at lanminds.com]

>>>>> On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, "Bill" == Bill Mullen wrote:

  Bill> As Gnome appears to have no corresponding ability to
  Bill> repeatedly execute a program/script for this as KDE does, and
  Bill> completely ignores the attempts of xplanetbg to draw to the
  Bill> root window directly, I'm at a loss as to how to get some or
  Bill> all of this functionality going under Gnome.

I'm not claiming that I know anything about Gnome or KDE, nor do I 
fully understand exactly what you're trying to do, but couldn't you 
use 'cron' to repeatedly exec your program for you?  Is there a 
reason it must be a desktop/window manager built-in capability?
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Seeya,
Paul
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