[E-devel] Re: E CVS: feh gilbertt

[Michael J. <me...@en...>]

On Wednesday, 22 August 2001, at 10:18:37 (-0700),
E CVS Admin wrote:

>     Ugh. I'm trying to emulate Esetroot, by setting the atoms needed
>     to tell Eterm where the bg pixmap is. Of course, when feh exits,
>     the pixmap is cleaned up by X, unless I do an
>     XSetCloseDownMode(disp, RetainPermanent); However, this means
>     all my crap hangs around, I want it to be cleaned up. So anyone
>     know how I can make the pixmap stick around in X, without
>     leaving windows and other pixmaps there too?  (Esetroot lets it
>     all hang out basically, but it's non graphical and can afford
>     to. It always exits after doing it's job and the next time you
>     run it, it frees the last pixmap it made).

Please consult the Eterm Technical Reference, the very last section.
I discuss the Esetroot algorithm and the differences between a WM and
a command-line program setting the background.  It should clear up the
confusion. :)

HTH,
Michael

-- 
Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX)  http://www.kainx.org/  <me...@et...>
Software Engineer, VA Linux Systems       Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org)
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