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Date: Sun 11-Oct-1990 23:18:00 From: brownfld@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: background screen loader Is there a way to change the background picture from the Unix shell, e.g. without being on console? It would be nice to have a timed background changer without going into windowed Scene. Is there such a utility? Thanks a lot for any advice. Ken. Kenneth R. Brownfield ken-b@uiuc.edu University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Junior, Computer Science/Engineering.
Date: Sun 12-Oct-1990 01:45:44 From: wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis) Subject: Re: background screen loader In article <18600009@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> brownfld@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > Is there a way to change the background picture from the Unix shell, >e.g. without being on console? It would be nice to have a timed background >changer without going into windowed Scene. Is there such a utility? Thanks >a lot for any advice. There's a shell script that does this, named "background" (appropriately enough), on the archives. Probably in the binaries directory.
Date: Sun 13-Oct-1990 07:13:37 From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Subject: Re: background screen loader In article <9044@milton.u.washington.edu> wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis) writes: >In article <18600009@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> brownfld@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >> Is there a way to change the background picture from the Unix shell, >>e.g. without being on console? It would be nice to have a timed background > There's a shell script that does this, named "background" (appropriately >enough), on the archives. Probably in the binaries directory. background does not quite the right thing. If you move your menu off the screen with a correct default setting and rely on the right mouse button to pop up the menues, it won't work if the mouse cursor is above the new background. This problem does not occur with Scene.app Thus the two do not do the same thing unfortunately. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet
Date: Sun 13-Oct-1990 14:43:00 From: brownfld@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: Re: background screen loader Is there a way to change the background WITHOUT a running WindowServer? For example, if the NeXT is displaying the login window, the WindowServer isn't running. So, if the NeXT doesn't have someone logged in, I can't change the background. I'd like to have a timed, ~daily change of the background without assuming that the WindowServer is active. Any possibility? Thanks a lot for your replies! Ken. Kenneth R. Brownfield ken-b@uiuc.edu University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Junior, Computer Science/Engineering.
Date: Sun 15-Oct-1990 20:37:42 From: keith@panews Subject: Re: background screen loader In article <18600014@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> brownfld@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > > Is there a way to change the background WITHOUT a running WindowServer? >For example, if the NeXT is displaying the login window, the WindowServer >isn't running. So, if the NeXT doesn't have someone logged in, I can't >change the background. I'd like to have a timed, ~daily change of the >background without assuming that the WindowServer is active. > Any possibility? Thanks a lot for your replies! > Don't you mean the Workspace, not the WindowServer? The WindowServer MUST be running if the loginwindow is up. Once the userid/passwd is accepted in the loginwindow, the Workspace then comes up. What you need to do is write a small PostScript program that inserts a window with your picture above the root window. I don't know exactly how, but someone around here used to do it. the machine that it's window appears on. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another useless comment from: Keith Mason ...!ibmsupt!keith (415) 855-3920
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