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X Windows Q: How do I set the background color of my desktop?

UT Physics Linux FAQ
You can set the background color with the xsetroot command, either from an interactive command line (e.g. xterm window) or from a X startup file (.xsession, .xinitrc, etc). For example, to set the background to be bright green, you might use: xsetroot -solid green You need to give an English color name for the background color you want. A list of available names (and their RGB values) can be found in the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt on the system.

How to set background color?

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Click the Artistic button. Check Cartoon and set line colors to black. For each Part, uncheck Lighting and set Color to white. Choose Camera... from the Edit menu and set background color to white.

Q: How do I access my old Windows Desktop?

Aston FAQ: frequently asked questions about Aston usage
Use Start> Desktop Folder menu or create a link to the Desktop folder manually. You can also place icons from Explorer Desktop to Aston's one by doing the following: press Start>Aston setup>Desktop>Settings and click Get Explorer icons.

Can I set the background color of the column headers?

Exontrol Software - ExGrid FAQ page
The BackColorHeader property changes the background color of columns header. The BackColor property changes the background color for the entire control. If you need to change the background color for a particular column, you can use the HTMLCaption property of the Column object like in the following code: With Grid1.Columns(0) .HTMLCaption = "<bgcolor=FF0000>new caption</bgcolor>" End With

I have Windows 95, how do I put the program on my desktop?

The Association for Gravestone Studies - FAQ
Best of all if you purchase the database from the AGS office and it does not meet your needs just return it for a full refund. From "Gravestone Rubbing for Beginners," a leaflet available from the Association for Gravestone Studies Gravestone rubbing is fun. It is possible to collect some beautiful artwork that can be framed and displayed. A carver's skill can be preserved, or an ancestor's stone recorded and appreciated through this craft.

How can I set a background image or a background color for a page?

Frequently Asked Questions, eBooksWriter; the ebook creator ...
You can also insert tables using an image as the background (click on a table or on a table cell with the right mouse button, then "Properties"). Use "Insert >Image" then add hot spots (clickable areas): select the image and use the "Image" button or click the image with the right mouse button. Then define links with the right mouse button. I have an image and some text on one page.

How can I put a background on my desktop?

ReelJewels.com
Well, if you have a PC, first you pick the picture you want. Click on the image and then a bigger picture will come up. Right click on the image and a menu will come up. Choose "Set As Wallpaper." Then look at your Desktop and the image should be copied over. To save the picture for later use you might want to look at the next question. On a Mac, just hold your mouse button down and a menu will come up giving you choices on how to save the image. Again, I can't emphasize this enough.

What is a Desktop Background?

Canen Art... Outdoors brought to the Indoors
A Desktop Background is the part of your computer screen behind all of your icons on your computer monitor.

How do I set up TV screen as the "Desktop background"(ie. Wallpaper)?

Leadtek - We make dreams a reality
Press the right-mouse button on the desktop. 2. Check the "Lock web items on Desktop" option in the "Arrange Icon By" menu. 3a. Press F2 or 3b. Press the right-mouse button on the video screen of WinFast PVR. 3b.1. Select "Video As Desktop Background". ( refer to the graphic)

How do I set the background color of the HTML email?

Gammadyne Mailer - Tech Support
To control the background color of the HTML body, the <body> tag should look something like this:

How do I set the background color of an SVG image?

aiSee: SVG Related FAQs
Sadly, SVG does not support directly specifying an image background color. With aiSee, however, you can easily work around this drawback by artificially enlarging the layout plane as follows: Open the SVG file with a text editor and manually adjust the four values of the viewBox attribute. This attribute is to be found in the third line of the SVG file.

Why am I not being able to set a Color.Transparent color as a background to my control?

Appearance - Windows Forms FAQs
Sometimes the framework will throw an exception if you try to set the bg color to be transparent. This is because the Control doesn't support transparent colors. To work around this you should call this method from within the Control: SetStyle( ControlStyles...

Question 13: When plotting monochrome raster data, how can the background color be set?

SELECTservices | 6195 - Raster Manager FAQ
Answer: The following parameter can be used to specify the background color of monochrome raster in Raster Manager: BACKGROUND=0 or 1 (white or black): the raster foreground is inverted if it is identical to the background. BACKGROUND=2 (color): no change is made to the monochrome raster. To set the background color, edit the following variable in the .PLT driver used to generate the plot: BACKGROUND = 0 where 0=white, 1=black, 2=color.

If background and color should always be set together, why do they exist as separate properties?

HWG CSS FAQ
There are serveral reasons for this. First, style sheets become more legible -- both for humans and machines. The background property is already the most complex property in CSS1 and combining it with color would make it even more complex. Second, color inherits, but background doesn't and this would be a source of confusion. Generally no. However, values containing white spaces, e.g.

How do I set up an X window environment?

DCF FAQ
Most of you will be using default - Common desktop window manager that came with Solaris. If you need to run your own window manager, please read on. You need to have /opt/X11R6/bin (Solaris 2.x) or /usr/openwin/bin in your path. In your home directory you should create a file ".xinitrc". ".xinitrc" is the script used to start up X and it is invoked when you type "xinit".

How do I keep a window on top of the desktop? manage minimization and maximization of windows?

comp.lang.perl.tk FAQ
Staying on top" depends on the window manager in a way largely out of Perl/Tk's control. Until we make the time to write up a more complete explanation, see the Tcl-ers' Wiki for hints as to what's involved. Most of this general theory is irrelevant. What people generally want is for dialog boxes to stay high when wm->transient is set, and this is reasonably reliable.

Black & White X Windows is cool, but what about color?

X Window System Version 11 Release 6
It depends on your hardware. Thanks to original efforts by Ken Nakata (kenn@eden.rutgers.edu) and Taras Ivanenko (ivanenko@ctpa03.mit.edu) and further work by Paul Goyette (paul@whooppee.com) there is 8-bit color support for Nubus video on some '030 and '040-based Macs. NOTE: in addition to the information provided below, you may want to check out Mark Andres' (mark@giganet.
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