How can make FVWM support JPG? can't make jpg as my wallpaper.

jazzi · 07-20-2008, 09:51 PM

Does FVWM support jpg? Except convert jpg to png.

I've tried jpg as my desktop background several times, but failed.

fvwm-root, I use this guy, How can Make it support jpg?
Is there any option for compiling?

elliott678 · 07-20-2008, 11:12 PM

The background manager that comes with FVWM is only capable of supporting xpm, xbm and png images. You can use something else to set the background, it isn't really the window manager's job to handle the desktop anyway. I've always used feh to set the background on my minimalistic systems, something like "feh --bg-center /home/user/.backgrounds/bg1.jpg" will set your background, add that to your .xinitrc to set it automatically on log in.

jazzi · 07-21-2008, 12:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elliott678

The background manager that comes with FVWM is only capable of supporting xpm, xbm and png images. You can use something else to set the background, it isn't really the window manager's job to handle the desktop anyway. I've always used feh to set the background on my minimalistic systems, something like "feh --bg-center /home/user/.backgrounds/bg1.jpg" will set your background, add that to your .xinitrc to set it automatically on log in.

Thanks elliott, I'll try feh.

here is the feh web:
http://linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/wiki/FehHelp

Why fvwm-root don't want to support jpg?

Su-Shee · 07-22-2008, 03:27 AM

fvwm-root also supports SVG.

However, you can use more ore less any background wallpaper supporting tool out there - wmsetbg, fbsetbg, xsetroot ...

ananai · 08-09-2008, 02:20 PM

xloadimage -onroot -fullscreen "/pic/desktop.jpg"

i used this!

arizonagroovejet · 08-09-2008, 02:54 PM

I'm not tested this in FVWM but I recently worked out the following command to display a jpeg as wallpaper in MWM. It resizes the image to whatever the dimensions of your screen are.

Code:

display -window root -resize `xdpyinfo | grep dimensions | awk '{print $2}'`\! /what/ever/pic.jpg