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hsetroot

What is hsetroot?

hsetroot is a tool which allows you to compose wallpapers ("root pixmaps") for X. It has a lot of options like rendering gradients, solids, images but it also allows you to perform manipulations on those things, or chain them together. You could use one standard background image for isntance, and using tint to make it fit your current theme. And yes, of course it is compatible with semi-translucent applications like aterm and xchat :)
 
At this time, hsetroot can render: gradients (multi-color with variable distance), solids (rectangles) and images (centered, tiled, fullscreen, or maximum aspect). It supports the following manipulations: tinting (overlaying a color mask), blurring, sharpening, flipping (horizontally, diagonally, vertically) it also allows you to adjust brightness, contrast and gamma-level. hsetroot also supports alpha-channels when rendering things.
 

 
Examples
 
Original image
 
The same image but tinted
 
Again, the same image but with a translucent gradient
 

 
Download
 
Before you download, please be aware that hsetroot requires Imlib2 to be installed, as well as its development package (depends on your distribution). It also requires a C compiler and the X11 libraries and development packages (again, depends on your distribution).
 
Latest tar.gz: hsetroot-1.0.2.tar.gz (125535 bytes)
Ebuild for gentoo users: hsetroot-1.0.2-ebuild.tar.bz2 (746 bytes)
 

 
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