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Harry Palmer

April 5, 2007

Solaris CDE Wallpaper

Filed under: Computers — Ben @ 7:34 am

Just in case you’d like to use that image as wallpaper on your Sun box I found this at http://www.sungames.com/CDE-wallpaper.html :-

If you have root:

Pick the image that you would like tiled all over your background.
Use Applications -> Image Viewer to open the file, and then save it as .xpm format.

mkdir /etc/dt/backdrops
chmod 755 /etc/dt/backdrops
cp yourimage.xpm /etc/dt/backdrops
chmod 755 /etc/dt/backdrops/yourimage.xpm

Log out, log back in, and it should appear in the list of backdrops you can pick. The image will be an available selection for all users on your system.

If you don’t have root:

Create the .xpm file as above, then

mkdir ~/.dt/backdrops
cp yourimage.xpm ~/.dt/backdrops

Exit CDE, log in again, and your image will be a valid wallpaper selection for your id henceforth.

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1 Comment »

  1. Thanks for this tip. I had been looking for a way to set the wallpaper in CDE for a long time.

    Comment by german pulido — December 26, 2007 @ 5:31 pm

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