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> But, I figure it should be quire easy - simply wmsetbg <path>. Until I started messing around with the Gnome/KDE mess it wouldn't have occurred to me to use my window manager to set my background. The window manager doesn't even own the root window. Look, separate window managers are a great idea. Putting them in charge of other stuff is daft. We had to quit using multiple-window mode on Chameleon and Hummingbird because CDE insisted it owned the desktop... so when you logged in your Windows desktop got covered up with this huge root background that they so conveniently provided. I really really do like how Windowmaker didn't get in my way and try and take over the root when I was using Electric Sheep as my desktop background on FreeBSD. Use xsetroot or xv -root or whatever program you like to set your root, and quit trying to make the window manager a "desktop environment". That's not how X11 was designed, software that tries to shove inappropriate functionality in the window manager is hateful. Windowmaker doesn't do this... in fact it's one of the least hateful window managers I've ever used. Oh, it's not immune, but software I only have to hate a little bit is a Good Thing.
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