Blackbox background disappeared!

oO_SwooP_Oo · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 17

Hey all,

Wondering if anyone has come across a solution to a problem that I have encountered recently. It's been about a month since the last time I did an emerge sync/system/world (using -UD switches) and when I finally did, last night, something peculiar happend: the background image to my window manager (blackbox) disappeared. All that shows up is a black background.

None of the style files have been tampered with and are properly configured on the rootCommand line to display my background image. I have manually checked this and through bbconf. I have tried using different utilities to display the background (eg. xv, bsetbg, etc.) to no avail.

What is suspicious is that the background can be set if I use a terminal to run the background display utilities on the command line (I've done this through both xterm and aterm). However as soon as I exit blackbox and startx the background image disappears again.

Aside from trying the different background image display utilities, I've tried playing around with the xinitrc file and the .blackboxrc file with no results.

If anyone has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

oO_SwooP_Oo

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

try using fbsetbg
the rootcommand got disable on the *box
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/fluxbox/fbsetbg.html
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oO_SwooP_Oo · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 17

ikaro,

Thanks for the quick reply. If rootCommand was disabled on the *box (I also read your other post to allucid 'blackbox rootCommand security hole?') how do I use fbsetbg to set the background image when I startx?

oO_SwooP_Oo · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 17

to clarify my last post, what I mean to say is, how can I use fbsetbg to automatically load the background image whenever I startx?

oO_SwooP_Oo · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 17

In addition to my last question:

Is there a way to use fbsetbg so that the image loaded on the background is tied into the theme styles set?

The only way that I can think of at the moment is to run fbsetbg in the xinitrc, but then that would me modifying the rc file everytime a new theme/style was loaded.