Re: Setting the root window with GDK

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:38:56PM +0100, Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:
> I'm trying to set the root window using the routines offered by GDK.
> However, it doesn't work at all :/
>
> What I'm doing is:
> * calling GDK_ROOT_PAREN() to get the root window
> * loading some file into a GdkPixbuf
> * rendering that pixbuf into a pixmap
> * calling gdk_window_set_back_pixmap() and gdk_window_clear() to
>   actually set the background and redraw the window.
>   
> Steps 1-2 work, I'm pretty sure step 3 does so, as well (at least I
> checked whether the returned pixmap was NULL), so it must be the last
> two calls that are failing, IMHO.
>
> I got some sources off the web which are doing almost the same, but
> I just don't know what's causing my code to fail.
>
> Can someone enlighten me please? 

Is your root window covered up by nautilus (the desktop)?

Havoc