William W. Austin wrote:
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I realize that xv doesn't appear to have been maintained for several
years (that I can tell, anyway), and I have tried other programs. If
anyone knows of another image-manager/manipulator which can use the
.xvpic directory thumbnails (or has a similar capability) I'd be glad
to try it and possibly switch. I have tried a few, but with an
astronomy image collection of > 10 GB, I don't really like the
programs which generate the thumbnails on the fly - they take far too
long overall.
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Correct, xv is not relevant any more.
And yes, I was a fan of xv for years, but that was many years ago, now. :)
All modern desktops now have a concept of the 'Desktop' with many
properties, background as one of them, as apposed to the simple X
windows root window.
Some Desktop managers allow the root window to show on the Desktop
background, but gnome, kde, enlightenment (e17), and others, do not any
more.
To accomplish the same thing, and arguably better, use the "Change
Desktop Background" menu function.
I saw a script recently that would randomly change the Desktop
background image from a directory of images, and I have read that Gnome
can do that itself, but much of that info has been collected here:
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/12/01/random-wallpaper-in-gnome/
Good Luck!
