I'm having no success with your suggestion, can you help?
>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.
>Anyway, here's the procedure:
>1) make a \geoworks\userdata\backgrnd directory (I put mine on a SRAM card)
Done, but I put mine in b:\GEOWORKS\USERDATA\backgrnd
Question: why is this directory significant? (I suspect the
ui looks in this specific directory, but you didn't say).
2) copy your favorite background to it (assuming you have desktop GEOS)
>From what you say later, I assume a .gif file is a suitable
"background". I created such a .gif, in 320x256 format.
>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
Mine is:
background=babef
backgroundattr = center
backgroundcolor = 8
>Just for reference, here's the twisty path I took to getting
>my face on the Zoomer:
[ I used another method; I simply created (using PhotoStyler) ]
[ a .gif for my background. Comments below. . . ]
>a) go to a Usenix conference and have your face added ...
>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)
[ I'm in "sync" at this point, having created my .gif file ]
>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)
I assume e..g is a method, using GEOS, to create a "background"
file. I created one, a .GIF-formatted file. I further guess that
I need to convert this to some other format (while you might
be familiar with GEOS, many of us aren't, and I JUST DON'T
KNOW the nuances of the O/S). So, is my guess correct, and
is the fact that I did everything else okay not enough, and
I need to convert this .GIF to a GEOS-proprietary format?
My Zoomer boots, but never displays a background, and I've
been working on this, tweaking the GIF format, tweaking
case, etc., for HOURS. . . ! Not fun.
After playing with this, I'm guessing that there's a few
GEOS-specific items you didn't mention, and I hope you can
fill me in.
Thanks,
Dean
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