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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