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bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!) writes:

>Sorry but I don;t understand what you mean.
>1) what are "non-ctwm backgrounds" ?

First, let me restate: my opinion is uneducated - I don't use ctwm.
The ctwm users I've seen all have these bitmap/tiled backgrounds. Stuff like
little diamonds, etc. Each room (or workspace, I'm not sure how the docs
refer to it) has a different pattern, so you can tell which space you're in.
I recall someone trying to find the most offensive color combination and
needing to restart ctwm each time to see how it looked.

>2) what do you mean by "change rooms"? 
>   IF
>     changing workspaces under ctwm
>        then I have no problems and the same root window image is everywhere

My comment on this comes from when I saw a ctwm user using xfractint with
-onroot. The fractal would display correctly, but when changing workspaces,
ctwm would repaint the screen with it's (the current workspace's) designated
background (the diamonds, etc). The fractal would continue generating (if it
still was) where it last was on the screen, but everything that was there
before was painted over by the ctwm background. If there's a no-background
option (there probably is, I re-restate, I don't use it and don't know what
options are available), then that probably solves the problem. My informash
comes from looking over people's shoulders.

>     changing rooms - ie terminals
>        then how do other WMs remember the last root window image?????

Through the XTransferRootImageToNewTerminalWhenLoggedOntoDifferentTerminal
call ;-).

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