Fluxbox background

[Yaker]

hey all,

i am in need of some desperate help, i tried #linuxhelp with no luck and read all the docs. My question is how do i set FluxBox background. I'm trying to put a .jpg image as my background by bsetbg and it says:
[khuong@localhost khuong]$ bsetbg /home/khuong/tmp/linux.jpg
Esetroot: Unable to load image file "/home/khuong/tmp/linux.jpg".
the image is there and when i tried with another image it says the same. I tried Esetroot but it'll say unable to load.......(same as above)

i really want to use Esetroot that came with fluxbox and don't really want to use another program. Someone said to install imagemagick but it did nothing.

Thanks in advance,

:mad:

[z0mbix]

Have you got xv installed? I have Esetroot -f /path/to/image in my style file. You can also put

session.screen0.rootCommand: Esetroot -f /path/to/image

in your init file.

I'd say try #fluxbox instead of #linuxhelp and also have a good read of the excellent documentation at the fluxbox website (http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net) and mailing list. Also there are many posts in this forum about fluxbox that might be able to help you.

[Mnemonic]

Originally posted by cheeky_zombie:
Have you got xv installed? I have Esetroot -f /path/to/image in my style file.

Do you need the -f commandline switch. It seems to me that the two options supported by the version of Esetroot that I use are -d for the display to use and -s to decide whether or not the background should be scaled. I suspect that what is happening is that Esetroot sees -f as the filename which is obviously not the case. Try the following and see if this works:

Esetroot /path/to/background

-M

[Yaker]

Thanks for the reply eveyone, i'll try it and let you guys know.

Thanks,