Re: Conflicting backgrounds

[Ian Campbell <ijc25 cam ac uk>]

Do WM hints work the other way round? ie. can a GNOME aware WM tell GNOME
to leave the background alone, or inform it what the current background
is - that way at least the WM settings and the GNOME backgroud settings
could at least appear to be coherent.

On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 raster@redhat.com wrote:

> On 22 Feb, Daniel Burrows scribbled:
> ->  On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 06:47:01PM +0000, Ian Campbell was heard to say:
> ->  > 
> ->  > Or maybe it is possible for GNOME to set a WM hint so that a GNOME aware
> ->  > wm wouldn't touch the background?
> ->  
> ->    Why is Gnome touching the background anyway?  I realize that you can turn
> ->  it off, but this feature is completely redundant with most window managers.
> ->  (with the possible exception of fvwm* and twm)
> 
> IMHO you are correct - but background-properties is a tool like "xv
> -root" for setting the bg for less capable wm's or wm's that simply
> havent been configured well (fvwm can set the bg easily by having the
> restart or init funciton in your configs call xv-root or whatever -
> small script and m4 macro processign can handle thsi nicely).
> 
> IMHO the MW is mroe capable than any other tool of deciding what
> backgroudn to show when (eg different backgroudns for different
> desktops (E and windowmaker both fully support this) - also knowing
> whne to "unload images" (E does this for a desktop you dont look at for
> X minutes (configurable) so to save memory it frees the pixmaps from
> memory - reloading if you go to that desktop).
> 
> Also the WM could "in theory" scroll the bg pixmap if it allowed you to
> scroll around its large virtual desktop - either scaling the image to
> be the size of the whole virtual desktop, or scrolling the tiled
> image... again - WM dependant but somehting the background properties
> cannot ever hope to do.
> 
> But background-properties should be there for those who chose not to
> run a WM that can do this.
> 
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