Drawing a picture on the X root window, a la Windows wallpaper

Matthew Hiller (matthew.hiller@yale.edu)
Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:12:31 -0500 (EST)

I recently spent some time figuring out how to do this, and now
know of two methods. The first, which works for a number of file formats
(including XPM, incidentally), is

% xv -root -quit [image filename]

Another that'll work for files in XPM format only is

% xpmroot [image filename]

Does anyone know if either method is better than the other, or if
there's a still-better method I don't know about?

Matt