In that traffic, I noticed a question about changing the Zoomer's wallpaper,
so I experimented a little bit and it turns out the procedure is trivial.
I now have a truly personalized Zoomer with my picture on it, but I'm
curious about how much Zoomer memory this takes.
The size of the wallpaper for my digitized kisser is about 90K (more
grayscale information than the Zoomer can use). Does anybody know
if this is simply copied to video RAM and that's it, or does a separate
copy hang around in memory? This is mostly directed at the guys from
Geoworks, but is GEOS smart about handling the saving and restoring of
the background image? I.e., if the background is generated from small tiled
bitmaps, does GEOS save the entire overlapped background region to RAM
or regenerate from the tiles?
Anyway, here's the procedure:
1) make a \geoworks\userdata\backgrnd directory (I put mine on a SRAM card)
2) copy your favorite background to it (assuming you have desktop GEOS)
3) add these entries in your net.ini (assuming you already use a RAM version):
[ui]
background = <your-background-name>
backgroundattr = <tile or center or one other I forget>
backgroundcolor = <color-number>
e.g., mine sez:
background = doug
backgroundattr = center
backgroundcolor = 8
Just for reference, here's the twisty path I took to getting my face on the
Zoomer:
a) go to a Usenix conference and have your face added to the facesaver project
b) get your face from uunet
c) run xface to see your face
d) run xv to convert your face to some standard format (choosey mothers
choose GIF)
e) copy the GIF to a system running GEOS
f) import the GIF image to the scrapbook
g) copy to the clipboard
h) run preferences, choose background, and choose get from clipboard
g) save it and goto (1)
-- Doug