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Old 09-09-2008   #1 (permalink)
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Wallpaper without KDE & GNOME

hi
i am working on a customized board having linux kernel
the board doesn't have a KDE OR GNOME SUPPORT

the path exists
root/.kde/share/config

but config is completely empty it does not have any file

so how should i display wallpaper with out kdesktoprc file WHICH MUST BE PRESENT IN (root/.kde/share/config) config directory

CAN I DO THIS WITH HELP OF X11 OR X-SERVER

PLEASE HELP.
thanks in advance
Gautam
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Old 09-09-2008   #2 (permalink)
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You don't need kde or gnome for such a simple task.

There are many programs that can do it for you. I use feh, which is imlib based. There's also esetroot and many others.

Code:
feh --bg-scale <picture>
Put it into your .xinitrc or whatever script you use to initialize X.

Also, I couldn't avoid to notice that you are operating as root. Not a good idea overall if you plan on having internet connection on this machine.
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