wallpaper (this one should be easy)

[optech]

this may sound like a stupid question (at least oneof you will probably say "no question is stupid") but, i'm fairly new to linux, and i was wondering if there was aneasy way to change your wallpaper... inwindows, you can right click an image in your browser and set it, in linux, is there a similar way?
if not, then what is the easiest way to do this? i'm using windowmaker

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[EscapeCharacter]

i believe that window manager comes with a configure tool right click the desktop and look the menus im not sure where it is since i havent used wm in a while but i know its there somewhere

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[Muzzafarath]

Check out the program xsetroot. It will change wallpapers on all windowmanagers out there.

If you have downloaded a theme for WindowMaker use the setstyle program to change the theme.

[dvdnut]

afaik
right click on desktop and select desktop manager or something

(i cant remember verbatim) as i am on an nt machine atm, but the option to change the backgrounds is there.

[Derango]

It realy depends on your window manager. are you running Gnome, KDE, WindowMaker...ect.?

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[Daedra]

you can also use xv

example...

xv -root -max -quit <filename>

[MkIII_Supra]

Which window manager are you using? If it's KDE2 you can set the wallpaper by right click on the screen then select back ground manager from the pop-up menu. Also with KDE2 you can set the background image to auto change at a predtermined interval. I have mine set to change every 15 minutes from a selection of 103 images. onlty uses about a meg or so of RAM but i notice no system degradation!

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[teeitup]

I use "wmsetbg -e xxx.jpg" in blackbox.

You can insert it in the theme file or run directly from the command line.



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[bdl]

what a stupid question.... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Letalis]

There are no stupid questions,
just stupid people...

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[Muzzafarath]

Originally posted by Derango:
It realy depends on your window manager. are you running Gnome, KDE, WindowMaker...ect.?



i'm using windowmaker


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