Background changing but info not showing

[Sander Bols]

I am using a remote desktop to connect to my Linux virtual machine (RHEL 7). I had some issues during the installation regarding permissions but solved them. Now when running BGINFO4X, I do not see the info although it did change the wallpaper. I was thinking it might had to do with the resolution but tried a few things and didn't work.

Anyone that has an idea what the issue could be?

[Anonymous]

[Kevin Routley]

OK, got it working.

The problem is the font pre-selected by the script, "Verdana-Italic", is not installed. (to see the list of installed fonts, do 'convert -list font'). I changed the file IMMODE.CONF to changes these lines:

FONT_HEADERFILE="Ubuntu-Italic"
FONT_OUTFILE="Verdana"              
FONT_ALARMFILE="Ubuntu-Italic"          

After that, all is well.

[Kevin Routley]

Alas, not quite.

There is a change to an "Imagemagick policy" which I needed to apply.

In /etc/ImageMagick-6 there is a file called policy.xml. In there, I had to comment out this line (shown commented out):

  <!-- <policy domain="path" rights="none" pattern="@*"/> -->

To do this requires sudo.

Frankly the script seems awfully fragile / finicky and difficult to customize and debug.