Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

From	Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]
Date	2017-05-27 13:40 +0200
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On Fri 26 May 2017 at 17:57:40 -0500, Michael Milliman wrote:

> On 05/25/2017 05:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > 
> > If I had read the man page more slowly that using the menu to set the
> > image as wallpaper was unnecessary. Use:
> > feh --no-xinerama  --bg-fill
> > /usr/share/backgrounds/mate/desktop/GreenTraditional.jpg
> > 
> > 
> And actually, the --no-xinerama flag is not needed, at least on my
> system.  I use feh --bg-fill ... and it works just fine.  Of course,
> that is a very limited (and safe) usage of feh.  I don't think it wise
> to use it for anything much more (IMHO).

Surprising after all these years that feh is now revealed as an unsafe
image viewer. I use it to look at an image prior to printing it from feh
and see that as quick, reliable and convenient but not as unwise.

-- 
Brian.

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Desktop Background Bites the Dust Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 07:00 +0200
  Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 07:30 +0200
    Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 12:00 +0200
    Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2017-05-20 20:50 +0200
      Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 01:30 +0200
  Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-05-20 04:20 +0200
    Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-05-20 07:10 +0200
      Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-05-21 15:00 +0200
        Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-05-21 18:10 +0200
        Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-05-21 23:40 +0200
          Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-22 10:00 +0200
            Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 22:30 +0200
            Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-23 01:50 +0200
          Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-05-25 13:40 +0200
            Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-27 01:10 +0200
    Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 01:30 +0200
  Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2017-05-20 21:00 +0200
    Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 01:40 +0200
      Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 04:40 +0200
        Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 18:00 +0200
        Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-24 19:30 +0200
          Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-25 00:30 +0200
            Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-25 02:00 +0200
              Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-25 02:30 +0200
              Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-25 13:20 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-25 17:40 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-25 20:30 +0200
          Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-25 13:00 +0200
            Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-05-25 13:10 +0200
              Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-25 13:30 +0200
              Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-27 01:10 +0200
            Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-05-26 16:50 +0200
              Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-26 17:20 +0200
              Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-27 01:10 +0200
            Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-27 01:00 +0200
              Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-27 13:40 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-27 17:00 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-05-27 17:20 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-27 20:20 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-29 20:20 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-30 06:00 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-30 11:20 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-30 11:40 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-30 14:30 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-30 15:10 +0200
  SOLVED? - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-06-10 23:00 +0200
    Re: SOLVED - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-06-11 02:40 +0200
    Re: SOLVED? - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-06-11 03:10 +0200
      Re: SOLVED? - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-06-11 03:10 +0200

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