Bugzilla – Bug 106011
fvwm at 1400x1050 shows corrupted background picture
Last modified: 2005-10-18 12:32:08 UTC
My display has a resolution of 1400x1050 pixels. When I log into fvwm, the _height_ of the background picture is ok, but the _width_ is not. At the right border of the screen, the picture starts again. Looking closer at it it seems the background pic is only 1280 pixels wide, instead of the 1400 that I have. It works with KDE and Windowmaker.
Anyone working on this? It is still there in beta4.
I know, you have a better chance reporting this bug to the original authors, at http://www.fvwm.org/cgi-bin/fvwm-bug
Ahm, isn't this just a bug of Suse not providing/setting up a background picture for 1400x1050? The wallpaper seems to be 1280x1050, so as far as I can see you just need to add another wallpaper...
I don't think it's reasonable to provide a wallpaper in every possible resolution, there are far too many. Instead, the WM should scale the wallpaper correctly no matter what. Clearly a bug in fvwm, anyways assigning to the new maintainer.
I think it is not bug of fvwm. Fvwm simple rescale picture vertically. There is no simple workaround, either provide non standard wallpaper or ugly stretch wallpaper on background. I think rightest solution is create new wallpaper with proper resolution. Copy /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc to ~/.fvwm2.rc and add line Exec fvwm-root you_picture.png
fvwm-root cannot resize picture so i will use xli in default config file. "Exec fvwm-root you_picture.png" -> "Exec xli -onroot -border -fillscreen" heal this bug. I will fix this for beta. Closing this bug.