Re: Desktop Background

[Jan <jandersen striva com>]

David McWilliams wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm using Red Hat 9 (Shrike). On earlier versions of Red Hat, I used to
> use a home made sh script that would go a retrieve an image from a
> webcam, and display it on the root window using Imagemagick's 'display'
> utility.  I switched off the Gnome background from within Nautilus,
> under 'Edit... Preferences... Desktop & Trash... Use Nautilus to draw
> the desktop & Use your home folder to draw the desktop'.
>
> Now I am using RH9, with Gnome 2.2, of course, these mneu picks have
> now gone. Anyone any idea how I can get my root window back.
A lot of things seem to have gone in Gnome 2 - I hope they still are 
there, only turned off. Eg. I miss the window position that is normally 
displayed in the middle of the screen. I also miss the neat feature I 
had in Gnome 1, where the window would stop (briefly) when it hit the 
edge. Why do all these useful features go missing? Sometimes it feels 
too much like somebody is selling out to the MSWindows crowd.

/jan