I am creating a JPEG file, converting to BMP then using with xsetroot
, but that is failing.
1) Make a JPEG file
$ convert -size 800x600 xc:transparent \
-font Bookman-DemiItalic -pointsize 50 \
-draw "text 25,90 'Please wait.'" -channel RGBA -blur 0x6 \
-fill steelblue -stroke white \
-draw "text 10,90 'Please wait.'" -antialias /var/tmp/wait.jpeg;
2) Convert the file from JPEG to bitmap BMP
$ convert /var/tmp/wait.jpeg /var/tmp/wait.bmp;
OR
$ mogrify -format wait.jpeg wait.another.bmp;
3) Use it
$ xsetroot -bitmap /var/tmp/wait.bmp
xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: /var/tmp/wait.bmp
OR
$ xsetroot -bitmap /var/tmp/wait.another.bmp;
xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: /var/tmp/wait.another.bmp
How do I set that BMP to xsetroot?
Best Answer
I'd try .xbm (X11 bitmap format) as the file type.
See BMP and XBM in http://www.imagemagick.org/script/formats.php
Also, you don't need to use JPEG as an intermediate format. Use .xbm in the first command and omit the second.