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Sander Bols
2021-03-26
2021-11-26

  • Sander Bols

    Sander Bols - 2021-03-26

    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?

     
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  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2021-11-25
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  • Kevin Routley

    Kevin Routley - 2021-11-25

    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

    Kevin Routley - 2021-11-26

    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.

     

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