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I've been having a hard time with getting my own background on my O2. after a little wheedling, I've gotten my background to appear on the list of backgrounds, but it still won't display it, and I think it's because it's color depth is more then 8-bit. is there any easy way to decrease the color depth? I had Gimp installed, but then I reformatted the disk.

You can decrease the color depth of your picture, or increase the color depth of the root window, this way, you won't have to deal with a dithered picture...

I followed this
"First you must enable 24-bit support on your X server (Run xdpyinfo first to make sure your server supports this visual). This is important even when dealing with 256 color backgrounds as the default IRIX palette is not dynamic. Edit /var/X11/xdm/Xservers to reflect the following (make certain to back up your existing file first in case you need to revert):

:0 secure /usr/bin/X11/X -bs -nobitscale -c -pseudomap 4sight -solidroot sgilightblue -cursorFG red -cursorBG white -class TrueColor -depth 24"

which is what I think you're suggesting, and last I checked (I did stopgfx startgfx inbetween) it didn't work. when I tried wininfo on the root screen aftr I'd changed it to truecolor 24bit, it read as being 8 bit though.

Mine looks like that


The maxcliprec is an ODSY thing, so you don't need it... I've never had any problem using 24-bit pictures as background...
Another question: what command do you use in you .backgrounds to display the picture? Here is an example of what I use:

thanks for taking the time.

mine reads:
background "flclsun"
command "-bitmap /usr/people/hubble/backgrounds/flclsun.xpm"
default "-bitmap /usr/people/hubble/backgrounds/flclsun.xpm"
readok "/usr/people/hubble/backgrounds/flclsun.xpm"

Which IRIX version? The method of changing the backgrounds changed in later versions of IRIX - my blog entry on Nekochan is for older IRIX (pre 6.5.22 if I remember right). It's much easier to set backgrounds now that JPEG/PNG/BMP/etc. are native.

The procedure is essentially the same (add -class TrueColor -depth 24 to /var/X11/xdm/Xservers, copy /usr/lib/X11/system.backgrounds to your home directory as .backgrounds) except a typical ~/.backgrounds entry looks like this:



instead of like this:



A forum member wrote the following script for IRIX 6.5.22+ that will auto-populate a ~/.backgrounds based on the contents of a directory filled with JPEG/BMP/PNG images. Just change BGDIR to reflect an image directory of your choice:



Another common problem that crops up is that the file that the IM desktop stores the current background choice could have restrictive permissions set which the desktop user can't overwrite.

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Make certain that ~/.Sgiresources is populating correctly after selecting a background from the control panel.

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success, thanks.

I have done all of the above (added -class TrueColor, created ~/.backgrounds, etc.) And my entry:



But november is not in the list under Desktop->Customize->Backgrounds.

I am 6.5.22m - is it possible I needed 6.5.22f ? I've had this working in the past but it was on a different irix install.

What kind of permission do you have on the file?

-rw-r--r--

about trying a 777 and see if it works?

They are all 777. .Sgiresources, .backgrounds, and backgrounds dir recursively.

Here is my .backgrounds file:

I thought you said the picture was -rw-r--r--

It was - I had just updated it. Well - thanks for the attention. It appears I was just being foolish, I rebooted the machine and the entries appear just fine now... It could have been the permissions.

Glad it works... Although, you shouldn't have to reboot for this, any changes you make show up right away after launching the "background settings" application...