Chameleon by ff ----------------------------------------------------- ftp://ftp.lagged.net/pub/software/ Chameleon is a simple control panel for X desktops. It allows you to select a color from an RGB color wheel, and set it as your desktop background color. You can also specify a color either by name or in RGB notation, on the command line. Chameleon can also be used to either tile or stretch images of almost any format in the background. This can be done either through the interface or from the command line. Here are some command line use examples: $ chameleon "#c6c6ff" # set bgnd color to #c6c6ff $ chameleon "dark blue" # set bgnd color to dark blue $ chameleon ~/pix/alien.jpg # stretch alien.jpg in the bgnd $ chameleon ~/pix/tile.gif -t # tile tile.gif in the bgnd Chameleon needs GTK to compile and run. Get it from www.gtk.org. You want GTK 0.99.5 or later. Older versions might make Chameleon act a bit weird... as of version 1.1, Chameleon builds with GTK 1.2.x. It will also require Imlib for the image routines. You can get Imlib and most related libs at www.enlightenment.org/development.html It can be somewhat frustrating (and time consuming) installing these two libraries, but in the long run, its well worth it. Chameleon is Free Software (tm) under the GNU General Public Licence. See COPYING for details. TODO: Gradients ff@lagged.net GREETS: Special thanx to Brand and smitten for beta testing Chameleon, and Shaleh for the man page and work on the Chameleon Debian package.
