[NCLUG] wallpaper

[Mike Loseke]

Thus spake Elena Jakubikova:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> You will probably find this funny, but we have a factory made installation 
> of linux from dell and they have set as a default wallpaper their logo. Not 
> that it matters much but after a while it gets little annoying to look every 
> time at their DELL DELL DELL logo everywhere... I tried to reset the 
> wallpaper by the standard methods, but when I click on the apply button 
> nothing happens. My colleague tried to drag a new wallpaper at the desktop 
> and it works for a while but when I log out and log in back there is the old 
> wallpaper with dell everywhere again. Any ideas?
> Thank you,

 This is in my .xinitrc and is quite useful - I'm not sure where you'd set
the same thing in a Dell setup linux machine though (I blast mine from
scratch with KRUD):

xv -random ~/pics/* -max -smooth +noresetroot -root -quit

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