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Chuin
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 Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 4:14 am Post subject: I got the Esetroot woos |
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I have tried all the answers I can find in search to no avail.
Here is my problem.
I added the line below to my .xinitrc file and after I boot and run startx I can see the wallpaper for about 2 seconds, then fluxbox finishes loading and resets the screen to the default grey... I do get my idesk icons, so that part works.
.xinitrc
| Quote: | Esetroot /usr/pictures/wallpaper/xxxxxx.jpg
idesk &
exec fluxbox |
I can set my background manually after fluxbox is running without problem. I tried setting the BG with Esetroot and then adding a line in the .fluxbox/init file like
But after reboot I get the same problem
Some have said well use either bsetbg or fbsetbg, but neither are in portage that I can find with emerge -s eithername.
I remember from the last time I built a Gentoo box that the BG needs to get set before idesk runs so that the icons will have the wallpaper in the background and keep idesk from having black boxs in the icons. That is why I tried setting Esetroot before everything else.
Any help will be great...
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vitriol
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Joined: 01 Nov 2003
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Location: US
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| Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 4:28 am Post subject: |
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Try feh:
| Code: | * media-gfx/feh
Latest version available: 1.2.0
Latest version installed: 1.2.0
Size of downloaded files: 326 kB
Homepage: http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/feh
Description: A fast, lightweight imageviewer using imlib2
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And use this in .xinitrc:
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feh --bg-scale image.jpg
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Chuin
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| Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 4:34 pm Post subject: Fixed.... |
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Thank you Vitriol for the help. It wasn't the cure, but it got me thinking that it had to be something in Fluxbox since both of our BG tools had the same problem.
I remembered seeing a post about a commandroot line in .fluxbox/init needed to be removed, but this was a post from a user who was installing styles, I was not, so I didn't think I had a style to worry about. I was wrong, fluxbox installs a default style. Once I removed that line from the style it worked great.
Just to be clear. .fluxbox/init has an entry and path to the current style your system is running. Edit the style and remove the line, was the last line in the file for me, that says commandroot and background. This will fix the error. |
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