deskTOPia: The hsetroot and Esetroot Background Tools
BACKGROUND VIEW
Author(s): ANDREA MÜLLER
Users who work long hours on a desktop computer will appreciate something eye-catching to relieve the monotony. The hsetroot and Esetroot tools offer you more than an ordinary desktop.
Long gone, and rightfully so, are the days when Windows experts used to sell their users on wallpaper stripping as a top secret tuning tip. Modern computers have more than enough memory for a desktop background. And in contrast to Windows 95, most window managers in the Linux world can handle graphics in compressed and thus smaller formats such as PNG or JPG. Desktop environments typically have a preferences dialog where users can select a wallpaper. More basic window managers may expect you to store background images in a specific directory, or even to point to the image in a configuration file. Command-line programs that load a background image remove these restrictions. In this month’s article, we will be looking at two applications that offer you more than just the ability to paint a picture in the root window: Esetroot [1] and hsetroot [2].
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