windowmaker's backgrounds

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From: Simon Wistow
Subject: windowmaker's backgrounds
Date: 14:54 on 23 May 2005
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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