Blackbox Background Changing?

Breezwell · 11-28-2001, 04:28 PM

Does anyone know how to change the background in Blackbox?

Basically, I would like to be able to download background images from places like

www.gamewallpapers.com

and change them either thorugh GUI or at command line.

Thanks for any tips.

unSpawn · 11-28-2001, 05:38 PM

When you installed blackbox in /usr/X11R6/bin there also was an app installed with it that supports adding wallpapers, its bgsetroot, or another one starting with b* :-]
You also can check this by looking at some blackbox themes from themes.org, or in /usr/share/blackbox/(themes?, anyway around there) that set a background image.
Anyway, you could also set it with zgv, ee, xnview or another imageviewer, tho you have to add those as a command to your ~/.Xclients(-default) or ~/.xinitrc to have em load it on startx.

paavaka · 11-28-2001, 10:36 PM

To change the background in blackbox you need a separate program that will throw an image on your root window... the only three I know of are Xsetroot, Chameleon and Esetroot. The only blackbox theme I have used that used a background wallpaper displayed it with Esetroot.

bsetroot is only for changing background color/gradient... at least in the version I have.

Breezwell · 11-29-2001, 02:19 PM

Great, thanks for the help.

Blackbox seems to have just the right amount of thrills without being too bloated.

Rezzin · 01-24-2002, 03:49 PM

I am using RH 7.1 w/ blackbox as my window manager. I am trying to get transperancies working with Eterm. Only problem I am having it seems is with Esetroot. For some reason Esetroot won't allow me to set a .jpg as my desktop window. Thus, when trying to launch Eterm -O it returns the error that I have no desktop window set. I was able to set the background wallpaper using xsetbg but I don't think it's letting me using transperancies with Eterm. Any help or suggestion would be GREATLY appreciated!

acid_kewpie · 01-24-2002, 04:11 PM

use bsetbg to set the background