bgs - back ground setter

bgs is an extremely fast and small background setter for X.

Requirements

In order to build bgs you need the Xlib and Imlib2 header files.

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (bgs is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install bgs (if necessary as root):

make clean install

Running bgs

Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start bgs using startx:

bgs <image> &

In order to connect bgs to a specific display, make sure that the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:

DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 bgs <image> &

(This will start bgs on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)

In order to have a different image on each monitor you can specify multiple images (one per monitor), e.g.:

DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 bgs <image1> <image2> &

(This will display image1 on monitor 1 and image2 on monitor 2.)