Hello managers,
a while ago i asked:
>(my users and) I have problems with creating personal CDE-backdrops...
>
>Following the docs we have been able at least to create personal
>backdrops at all. But there are several problems:
>
>-> We can only create "bm"s. All our "pm"-tries have been ignored
> by the WorkspaceManager until now.
>
>-> And our "bm"s appear as "negatives" of the original pics instead
> of "positives"...
>
>-> Another question: the number of colors a backdrop can have, is it
> declared by the number of colors i give to CDE? So, is not possible
> to have multi-color backdrops?
>
>What we did: start with a gif or jpg picture, convert it with "xv" to
>xbm, giving it a file.extension "bm" and restart the WorkspaceManager...
>
>We have DU-4.0B plus PatchKit 7.
>
>Any ideas, hints?
and i got no answers on this question at all.
Now i *think*, the problem is that these days 256 colors (our default)
with a "normal" CDE-station/-Xterminal is far from being enough...
With regards,
Bernt Christandl
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Received on Thu Sep 03 1998 - 08:43:29 NZST