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mwallp - simple wallpaper setting tool using MPlayer codebase
author | arpi |
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date | Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:13:10 +0000 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/TOOLS/mwallp/README Mon Jun 17 14:13:10 2002 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +mwallp - mplayer's wallpaper setting utility +====== + +Usage: mwallp file1.jpg [file2.jpg file3.jpg ...] +~~~~~~ + +About: +~~~~~~ +MWallp is a simple tool to set .jpg images as background/wallpaper on the +desktop. It scales (bicubic) and convert the given jpg image to desktop +size/bpp and set as background of Root window. + +If more than 1 filenames given, it randomly selects one, so running something +like 'mwallp ~/.wallpapers/*.jpg' from cron will randomly changes wallpaper. + +Why? +~~~~ +I've tried several programs, and as most of them used Imlib, their quality +sucks (Imlib uses neares-neighbour scaling...). +So I've decided to put together something very simple but efficient built +using the MPlayer codebase. + +A'rpi