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Esetroot

Esetroot without all the Eterm baggage

Esetroot

Introduction

Grab it from the downloads section. If you have any problems with this package free to drop me a mail.

Note

The Makefile is designed to use Imlib2, Imlib2 is not the same as Imlib (possibly called Imlib1 by your package managing system).

Eterm baggage

It was supposed to be so easy

I’ve referred to this as ‘Esetroot without all the Eterm baggage’ for a long time now, and I never meant for it to sound like a slur on Eterm. It appears as though other people have taken it that way, and I’d just like to add this comment to explain.

I was a happy Eterm user for many years, that is why I became so accustomed to using Esetroot. However, as time went on it became abundantly clear that regardless of how useful and featureful Eterm was it was falling behind in one important area; Unicode support.

In the modern world lack of Unicode support is a show stopper, there is no other way to look at it. Everything from reading/writing mail with mutt to genuine work relies on dealing with Unicode every single day.

My current terminal emulator doesn’t include the nifty menu system, GNU screen integration or for that matter the immensely useful auto-mode features that Eterm boasts. I do miss them, I miss them a lot, but not enough to break everything else. I’d return to Eterm usage, and pimping, in a heartbeat if Unicode support improved.

This package is useful for users of applications that support pseudo-transparency(such as xchat or aterm), but do not wish to install the full Eterm package. Esetroot is also a supported root background tool for use by the fluxbox fbsetroot tool. It can also be used to set the background for enabling pseudo-transparency for use in E17 as described in the E17 User Guide.

Esetroot is very simple to use. For example:

# Using the image ~/pics/volvo.png scaled to current screen size
TEST$ Esetroot -s ~/pics/volvo.png
TEST$ Esetroot --scale ~/pics/volvo.png
# Using the image ~/pics/logo.png centred on the screen
TEST$ Esetroot -c ~/pics/logo.png
TEST$ Esetroot --center ~/pics/logo.png
# Generate a background image from the E17 "Dark" theme
TEST$ edje_thumb ~/.e/e/themes/grey.edj e/desktop/background \
  image_file.png -og 1280x960 -g 1280x960
# Make the generated image available to apps
TEST$ Esetroot -s image_file.png

Note

Older E17 CVS(before 2006-09), and pre-033 snapshots, backgrounds didn’t include e in their group name and should use desktop/background as the selector when calling edje_thumb instead.

You can find the original Esetroot, as part of the Eterm package at the Eterm website.

The package is dated 2003-04-22 to reflect the last change made to the official Esetroot source.

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