Wallpaper in IceWM, Hootie's .iso(SOLVED)

[BJF]

Sorry to be a pest, but things keep coming up.

I have a fully functional desktop with a black desktop background.
My folder /home/mdm contains a folder .icewm which I would have expected to have a preferences file in it for the desktop. It contains two files, menu and theme.
If I look in /usr/share/X11/icewm there is a preference file exactly as expected, but editing it as root to apply a new wallpaper in .jpg form changes nothing.
I tried to execute /usr/bin/icewmbg, and /usr/bin/icewmbg-lite as root but same result. No change.

Can someone direct me further please?

Thanks.

[Hootiegibbon]

Sorry to be a pest, but things keep coming up.

I have a fully functional desktop with a black desktop background.
My folder /home/mdm contains a folder .icewm which I would have expected to have a preferences file in it for the desktop. It contains two files, menu and theme.
If I look in /usr/share/X11/icewm there is a preference file exactly as expected, but editing it as root to apply a new wallpaper in .jpg form changes nothing.
I tried to execute /usr/bin/icewmbg, and /usr/bin/icewmbg-lite as root but same result. No change.

Can someone direct me further please?

Thanks.

John,

all you need to do is copy the /usr/share/X11/icewm/preferences to ~/.icewm/preferences/ and use the copy in your /.icewm/ to make the edits, then use the "restart icewm" function in the menu after saving your edits (you MAY need to log out and back in for the change to take)

The set wallpaper function in icewm is fairly simple and does not allow for any scaling etc, if you want to have a better control of this read up on "feh" and "chbg" - feh is a very capable app , but you may need to have a read of its manpage to fully appreciate it


Jase

[BJF]

Jase:

I now have /usr/share/X11/icewm/preferences copiied to /home/mdm/.icewm and have assigned ownership to mdm, correct?
I have uncommented the line showing the path to the chosen .jpg; /home/mdm/Wallpaper/ and saved, shut down and rebooted.
On reboot, the screen remains black but functional, but the processor activity bar is solid green. It isn't happy.
I commented the line again and the processor got happy, but still black screen. Hmmm.
Then I chose the Bliss bitmap that works on everything (shudder) and uncommented again. Black screen, happy processor.
So the file is being read, just no pictures.   

[Hootiegibbon]

Jase:

I now have /usr/share/X11/icewm/preferences copiied to /home/mdm/.icewm and have assigned ownership to mdm, correct?
I have uncommented the line showing the path to the chosen .jpg; /home/mdm/Wallpaper/ and saved, shut down and rebooted.
On reboot, the screen remains black but functional, but the processor activity bar is solid green. It isn't happy.
I commented the line again and the processor got happy, but still black screen. Hmmm.
Then I chose the Bliss bitmap that works on everything (shudder) and uncommented again. Black screen, happy processor.
So the file is being read, just no pictures.   

to copy the preferences file

do this as the user "mdm"

cp /usr/share/X11/icewm/preferences ~/.icewm/preferences

there is no need to change permissions as mdm copied the file

Locate this line

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#  Desktop background image
# DesktopBackgroundImage="/usr/share/mdk/backgrounds/default.png"

and change it to

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#  Desktop background image
DesktopBackgroundImage="/home/mdm/Wallpaper/name.jpg"

^^ note that the # was removed to allow it to be read.

hope this helps

Jase

[BJF]

Ha! Perfick! Spot the numpty. Guess who left the trailing quotes off the code each time. Of course it wouldn't work! Thanks for the humility injection, Jase. We learn....
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