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Changing one's background is one of the fundamental writes of a GUI user. It allows you to express your individuality in much the same way that sticking amusing posters up on your cubical walls do. In 99.9999% of all desktop systems out there it is a trivially easy operation. Windowmaker has, however, fully embraced the Linux Retardo[tm] mindset. Is it part of the configuration menu - NO! That would be entirely too easy! You have to use the wmsetbg command line tool. Because, you know, when you're configuring the look and feel of a GRAPHICAL environment you want to be using the fucking COMMAND LINE. But, I figure it should be quire easy - simply wmsetbg <path>. But oh no, whilst that does change my background it only does it on this desktop. And sometimes only temporarily. Sometimes permanently. How special. To set my background on all desktops I need to do for f in `seq 0 10`; do wmsetbg -u -w $f <path>; done Hurrah! I suppose the point is that I could have different backgrounds on every desktop should I show wish which is clearly a far more common usecase than, say, wanting to browse thumbnails. Or put the image down anywhere other than center.
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