Set Wallpaper - another way

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mikeb
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Set Wallpaper - another way

#1 Post by mikeb »

Open a rox window and right click > options.

Choose the 'compatability' settings.

Untick 'pass all backdrop mouse clicks to windows manager'

Click ok button.

Right click on desktop, choose 'backdrop...' and drop in yer piccie.

regards

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#2 Post by vg1 »

Mike
this will disable the jwm menu on right [or left] click. I prefer to keep it, so I right click on an icon instead.

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#3 Post by mikeb »

this will disable the jwm menu on right [or left] click. I prefer to keep it, so I right click on an icon instead.
there's always that awfully nice menu button in the bottom left hand corner :D

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#4 Post by hanzf »

Nice thing... does anyone know how to get just a solid colour as background? I can choose "clear" from the background menu, but that makes a really ugly pinkbrowngrey desktop, i would like to have two different-coloured desktops in solid or gradient colours. I edited "_root_jwmrc" and put in the line

<Desktops count="3" Background="solid"/>

and ran "fixmenus"
but it didnt help so either my syntax was wrong or this is overridden from somewhere else. Who knows more?
thank you

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#5 Post by G0XAN »

@hanzf

One way to make a solid background is as follows. I'm something of a newbie as far as Puppy is concerned, so this may not be the best way, but it works for me in Puppy 4.2

Use Gimp or mpPaint to create a small image (say 50 x 50 pixels) and simply fill the image with a solid colour of your choice.

Save the image in /usr/share/backgrounds/

Go to Menu->Desktop->Wallpaper

Select the image (colour) you want to use, and set the mode to Stretched.

Click on Apply and you're done.

HTH
Gary

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#6 Post by mikeb »

A picture paints a thousand words for thos who like a simple life...

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#7 Post by recobayu »

Mikeb, I make a simple script that can set a picture as wallpaper. We also can add this to right click. Here:
1. make a new script, name setaswallpaper in /usr/bin

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#!/bin/sh 
  aku=$(basename $1) 
  cp $1 /usr/share/backgrounds 
  set_bg /usr/share/backgrounds/$aku
2. right click any picture (.jpg, .png) in rox filer
3. customize
4. open another rox /usr/bin in rox
5. drag setaswallpaper to send to in rox
I'm sorry..

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#8 Post by mikeb »

Hmm yes I had a script working like that in puppy 2 but it could choose the options ... since later Rox could do it anyway I thought using that made sense.

No apologies needed... If no one uses my ideas I am really not bothered lol

mike

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#9 Post by don570 »

I added the recobayu script to my rightclick menu utilty.
It works well :lol:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 872#720872

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#10 Post by toronado »

hanzf wrote:Nice thing... does anyone know how to get just a solid colour as background?
I had the same question and found my solution:
ROX > Options > Pinboard
Then standard "color pickers" appear for setting the colors of the (solid) desktop background, icon text, etc.

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