Blackbox and 1152x864 bgs

[s3raphim]

i have blackbox installed on a rh8.0 system and have downloaded a bunch of styles. the screen is set to 1152x864 as you can see from the subject line. now backgrounds involving gradients and stuff work just fine, but bsetbg is unreliable. out of 8 or so styles that use image files for backgrounds, only one of them works. they all read the same:

rootCommand: bsetbg -f ~/.blackbox/backgrounds/filename.blah

any suggestions about getting this to work reliably on a high resolution?
Thanks.

[patman]

First, what do you mean by not working? Are the images not displaying at all or are they not filling the screen? I would first check that the image files exist in ~/.blackbox/backgrounds/filename.blah. Then I'd try opening them in an image viewer to make sure there is not a problem with the actual images.

One other possibility is the setup. I'm assuming bb supports 1152x864 resolution; I've never had my display that big. Do you use a ~/.bsetbgrc file? If not you might want to try doing that. Basically you first run bsetbg -g That will output the default settings for you system. In particular there is probably a setting like
FULL="display -geometry 800x600 -window root"

That's what mine says though I use 1024x768. Perhaps changing that to 1152x864 could do it. I would just bsetbg -g > .bsetbgrc and then just edit the .bsetbgrc file.

[s3raphim]

thanks for the advice. i got it working for jpgs. does bsetbg handle tifs? if not what does?

[linux12414]

Originally posted by s3raphim
thanks for the advice. i got it working for jpgs. does bsetbg handle tifs? if not what does?

For .tiff files, you need libtiff. If you don't have it, download it from your distro's site or try sourceforge.net.

Glad to hear you got your backgrounds to render.