Trying a add background image in blackbox

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:24:49 -0500
Johnny <linuxhamuser at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> I am trying to add a background image.png to blackbox
> I keep get a light blue background.
> What do I need to edit to get my background
> 

I think Blackbox comes with the " bsetbg " background setting command.

Try:

bsetbg /path/to/your/background.png

If that doesn't work for you, there are several ways to set a background -
for instance the "feh" package has a background setting option, so you
might install that. From

apt-cache show feh

feh is a fast, lightweight image viewer which uses imlib2. It is
 commandline-driven and supports multiple images through
 slideshows, thumbnail browsing or multiple windows, and montages
 or index prints (using TrueType fonts to display file info).
 Advanced features include fast dynamic zooming, progressive
 loading, loading via HTTP (with reload support for watching
 webcams), recursive file opening (slideshow of a directory
 hierarchy), and mouse wheel/keyboard control

"feh" has many commandline options, well worth exploring ( I use it here
as my default image viewer).

There is also the "bsetroot" command, which I think is  included in
the blackbox package. Type 

dpkg -L blackbox | grep bin

to see what you have.

On the other hand, while blackbox is good, I prefer Fluxbox, which has
some nice extras, including tabbed windowing ;)

Peter


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