[Trippynet]

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Oh it does? Yea, im running 6.5.22, is the config string like the other or is it different?

Syntax is:

Code:

background "[display name]"
default "-image [filename with path]"

There was also a script someone had written (forget who) to populate the backgrounds file.

Copy the following to a shell script, save it and make it executable:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
BGDIR=$HOME/Backgrounds
#cp /usr/lib/X11/system.backgrounds $HOME/.backgrounds
chmod 644 $HOME/.backgrounds
cd ${BGDIR}
for x in *.jpg *.xpm *.png *.bmp; do
case ${x} in
'*.jpg'|'*.xpm'|'*.png'|'*.bmp') ;;
*)
NAME=`echo ${x} | tr '.' ' ' | awk '{print $1}' | tr '_' ' '`
echo "" >> $HOME/.backgrounds
echo "background \""${NAME}"\"" >> $HOME/.backgrounds
echo "default \""-image ${BGDIR}/${x}"\"" >> $HOME/.backgrounds
;;
esac
done

Copy your images into ~\Backgrounds, run the script and it will populate the .backgrounds file with all the images.