Images as a background in NeWS
Matthew White
matthew at cs.ed.ac.uk
Sat Jun 8 03:21:05 AEST 1991
I may be missing something blindingly obvious here but ....
Is there an easy way of putting an image onto the background when
running NeWS on the SGI ?
Some possibilities are :
1) Use X and xloadimage / xv / whatever
Until 4.0 is available I don't really think of this as
an option :-(
2) Write a wee GL program to use imakebackground and draw the image
But this won't make use of knowledge about which bits of
the screen need to be redrawn (unless I am missing
something else).
3) Write a Postscript program to draw the image (like the stuff in
/usr/NeWS/lib/roots.ps)
Belch, please please let there be an easier way!
Anybody know of a nice little program which will have the functionality
of xloadimage -onroot but which will work within NeWS ?
Matthew White
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
e_mail: matthew at epcc.edinburgh.ac.uk
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