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- From: gordon@maxwell.uwaterloo.ca (Gordon R. Strachan)
- Subject: Re: HP VUE backdrops -- colour ???
- Message-ID: <BxEtrx.4qo@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Keywords: VUE backdrop colour
- Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Nov5.204454.11031@nb.rockwell.com> <1dcccbINNkfn@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:23:57 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- In article <1dcccbINNkfn@rave.larc.nasa.gov> jeffc@magician.larc.nasa.gov (Jeff Cleveland) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov5.204454.11031@nb.rockwell.com>, robbie@nb.rockwell.com (Edward MacRobbie) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >> Re-posting of unanswered questions:
- >>
- >>
- >> (1) Does anybody know if a colour bitmap can be
- >> placed as a backdrop on a HP730 running HP VUE ?
- >> ...if so how ?
- > Not in vue 2.x. The format used for backdrops is an X bitmap,
- > and is only monochrome. HP/UX 9.0 and vue 3 is supposed to
- > contain better color support -- color icons and the like. Hopefully
- > color backdrops will be included as well.
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- Well, you can always set your backdrop resource to none so VUE won't put
- up the pseudoroot window. You can then use programs like xloadimage to
- load a colour image onto the root window.
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- Gordon
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