Tip: Set Pixel Map Background

Question: How do you set the background to a nicer graphic pattern? Such as, a paper background theme. . . .

Answer: Again, edit your ~/.xemacs/custom.el file. Add the following line.

  (set-face-background-pixmap 'default "/home/auser/pics/vegatative_fog.xpm")  

= This will set it globally. You won't be able to override via a command line switch.

= Where can you get Pixmap files / images? Open a Jpeg with Gimp as save as an image.xpm, to make it a pixmap formatted file. How to locate a paper graphic on Linux? Use locate paper, for one. Or go to /usr/share, and ls -lR | egrep -i paper | less. Or try find /usr/share -name '*.xpm' -print.

Platform: Linux
Level: Amateur
GlR