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wmsetbg(1)		     General Commands Manual		      wmsetbg(1)

NAME
     wmsetbg - sets the background on the X11 display

SYNOPSIS
     wmsetbg  [-display  display]  [--update-domain domain|--update-wmaker] [op-
     tions] [image]

DESCRIPTION
     wmsetbg reads the specified image (in any format supported by  the  WRaster
     library)  and  puts it on the root window. It can either scale the image or
     tile it to make it fit the root window. Window Maker uses this command  in-
     ternally to set the root window image on start up.

OPTIONS
     --back-color|-b color
	    the specified color is used as the background color for the texture.
	    Window Maker temporary sets the background to this color while load-
	    ing  and processing the texture.  You can specify colors using their
	    X11 names  or  as  an  RGB	triplet  (either  as  "rgb:RR/GG/BB"  or
	    "#RRGGBB")	(reference  to	appropriate manpage should be here).  In
	    the later case color is a quoted string.

     --center|-e
	    centers the image in the screen

     --colors|-c count
	    limit the number of colors per channel to use for the image

     -display display
	    connect to the X display

     --dither|-d
	    enable color dithering on image

     --fillscale|-f
	    scales the specified image to fill screen  while  preserving  aspect
	    ratio

     --help|-h
	    print a help message with the list of options

     --match|-m
	    use  the  best-matching-color algorithm when converting image to in-
	    dexed color palette

     --maxscale|-a
	    scales the specified image to fit inside the screen  preserving  its
	    aspect ratio

     --parse|-p texture
	    parses the specified texture as a proplist style texture

     --scale|-s
	    scales the specified image to fill the screen (default)

     --smooth|-S
	    use a smooth scaling algorithm when resizing image

     --tile|-t
	    tiles the specified image

     --update-domain|-D domain
	    updates the specified domain database

     --update-wmaker|-u
	    updates the Window Maker defaults database

     --version|-v
	    print the version of Window Maker from which the program comes

     --workspace|-w workspace
	    update background only for the specified workspace

     --xinerama|-X
	    stretch image across Xinerama heads

INDEXED COLOR SCREENS
     If  your  screen  is  not	in a True Color configuration (generally sold as
     16,777,216 colors) but in a indexed color mode (256 colors, 16 colors,  ...
     which  are  based	on a ColorMap) then Window Maker may need to process the
     image to convert it to a limited number of colors before  using  it  for  a
     background image.

     There are two options to choose what algorithm you want to use:

     --match or -m
	    Search  for  the  closest  matching color from the current colormap;
	    this is the fastest algorithm but may lead to less good-looking  re-
	    sult.

     --dither or -d
	    Use  a more complex algorithm which modify surrounding pixels to get
	    a closer-looking color on average; this is slower but provides  bet-
	    ter looking images.

     If  none  is specified, then it is Window Maker's configuration choice that
     will be used.

     You can also use the option --colors to reduce the total number  of  colors
     from  the	image before the algorithm is applied.	The value specified with
     the option defines the number of possible values  for  each  primary  color
     (red,  green  and	blue),	for example 8 would reduce the image to use only
     8*8*8=512 colors before applying the conversion algorithm.

SEE ALSO
     wmaker(1)

AUTHOR
     This man page was written by Marcelo Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>.

     Window Maker was written by Alfredo  K.  Kojima  <kojima@windowmaker.info>.
     wmsetbg was written by Dan Pascu <dan@windowmaker.info>

				   April 2015			      wmsetbg(1)

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