Adding a Background Image To a Basic Window Manager

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 3, 2007 5:16 AM EDT
Linux DevCenter; By Caitlyn Martin
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Running a basic, truly minimal window manager can save significant CPU cycles and memory. This becomes important if you’re running old, limited hardware or when designing a desktop environment for an embedded Linux device. Even the oldest, most primitive window managers (think TWM or MWM) can support a pretty desktop background image. The ability is almost as old as X itself.

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