Can't change IceWM desktop background (was: icewm)

[MarkLeong]

I am using KNOPPIX and icewm as the desktop.

Did some apt updates/upgrade and now I cannot seem to be able to change the desktop background image of icewm.

I know the file I should change is <HOME>/.icewm/preferences

and the line should be

DesktopBackgroundImage="path of image"

However it does not seem to work now.

Anybody has the same experience?

[kam]

The image must be in XPM format unless IceWM was compiled with support for other image formats, such as JPG.

[psi42]

Hi

In newer versions of icewm, the background is controlled by the icewmbg program, rather than icewm itself. Try running icewmbg and hopefully your background should appear.

If this works, you'll probably want to replace icewm with icewm-session (which runs icewm, icewmbg, and the system tray) in your ~/.xinitrc


:)

~psi42

[MarkLeong]

icewm is able to load jpg files. However puting icewm-session in .xsession does not load the background. I have to run icewmbg separately to get the background.

Understand that this is a bug of icewm.

[MarkLeong]

Its OK now. Did not realise that icewm has added a icewm-session in kdm. When I choose that during login, everything is ok.

Thanks guys.