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Date:
2003-08-12 04:18 am (UTC)
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APOD as my background
I used to, but RedHat9 went and made
display -window root
non-functional and I've not figured out an alternative.
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Date:
2003-08-12 05:00 am (UTC)
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This seems to be because of nautilus making a background window that covers the whole screen. Don't know how to stop it from doing that.
Proposed solution: ditch gnome/kde and use fvwm instead. :-)
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Date: 2003-08-12 04:18 am (UTC)I used to, but RedHat9 went and made
display -window rootnon-functional and I've not figured out an alternative.(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-12 05:00 am (UTC)Proposed solution: ditch gnome/kde and use fvwm instead. :-)