SGI: Computer Graphics

Pretty - a few new desktop backgrounds for IRIX

jimmer
From London, Ingerlund
Who joined Oct. 12, 2004, 3:54 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 27, 2014, 9:14 a.m...

Hi All,

I pulled apart my spare Fuel the other day and took the opportunity to take some piccies and make the backgrounds you can see below. The Fuel ones are 1920x1080 and the generic SGI (r16k cpu board) ones are both 1920x1080 and 1280x1024. I also got round to making an clogin icon for 'root' to match the EZsetup one I made a decade ago.

The tardist installs a little script each user needs to run to install these new backgrounds to the 'backgrounds' panel in their toolchest. After installing Pretty via the Software Manager, run

/usr/sillypages/bin/pretty

from a terminal prompt. Pretty is semi-clever about backing up your current $HOME/.backgrounds file before it adds the new background details. However, if you uninstall Pretty via the Software Manager you'll have to copy $HOME/.backgrounds.old back to $HOME/.backgrounds by hand. I guess I could automate that too but me lazy.

If you have a custom root icon the tardist does a similar backup thing and copies your current root login icon to

/.icons/login.icon.old

When you uninstall Pretty, Software Manager will restore your old root login icon.

Tardist is here:

http://www.sillypages.org/sgi/sp_pretty.tardist

Caveat: Tested only on my Fuel with a V12 and 4Gb RAM. No idea what these (large) background images may or may not do to X11 colormaps or memory on other systems.

J.

redbox 800Mhz 4Gb V12

foetz
Moderator
Who joined April 14, 2003, 4:34 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 27, 2014, 11:10 a.m...

thanks that's neat. especially fuel owners should dig it

jirka
From Czech Republic
Who joined May 4, 2004, 7:55 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 28, 2014, 11:16 p.m...

jimmer wrote: Caveat: Tested only on my Fuel with a V12 and 4Gb RAM. No idea what these (large) background images may or may not do to X11 colormaps or memory on other systems.

Nice backgrounds, thanks! So far no problems on my O2 with 1600SW :-)

vishnu
From Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
Who joined March 18, 2007, 3:25 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 29, 2014, 1:21 a.m...

Very decorative! Thanks a bunch... :mrgreen:

Project:
Temporarily lost at sea...
Plan:
World domination! Or something...

canavan
Who joined July 21, 2003, 6:19 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 30, 2014, 1:22 p.m...

Nice backgrounds, but apparently the subsystem with the exitop script is optional and the exitop for the images fails when it's not installed:

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Pre-installation check completed


Installing new versions of selected sp_pretty.art subsystems


Assigning id 60000 to unknown user/group name avi


sp_pretty.art.icons: ( /usr/sillypages/bin/root_icon_install )


/bin/sh: /usr/sillypages/bin/root_icon_install:  not found


ERROR: An error occurred while:


Installing new versions of selected sp_pretty.art subsystems


Command "( /usr/sillypages/bin/root_icon_install )" failed (return status 127, subsystem sp_pretty.art.icons 20147)


Removing orphaned directories

jimmer
From London, Ingerlund
Who joined Oct. 12, 2004, 3:54 p.m.

Wrote the following at July 10, 2014, 7:22 a.m...

ah - nice catch

How do i make a subsystem mandatory?

canavan
Who joined July 21, 2003, 6:19 a.m.

Wrote the following at July 27, 2014, 3:08 p.m...

You need a prereq section that defines the dependencies. For example, in the neko_imagemagick package, the sw.eoe component doesn't work without the sw.lib bits:

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image sw


id "software"


version 17


order 9999


subsys eoe default


id "execution only env"


replaces self


prereq (


neko_imagemagick.sw.lib 17 maxint


)


exp neko_imagemagick.sw.eoe


endsubsys

modology
Who joined Sept. 11, 2008, 9:22 a.m.

Wrote the following at July 27, 2014, 4:48 p.m...

Nice stuff dude.

@PymbleSoftware: I need to visit my old friend to capture his SGI collections and put up some beauty shots for archiving purposes.

jimmer
From London, Ingerlund
Who joined Oct. 12, 2004, 3:54 p.m.

Wrote the following at July 28, 2014, 12:29 a.m...

@canavan - thanks! will apply this with the next release of Pretty.

khalidschofield
Who joined May 6, 2004, 6:18 a.m.

Wrote the following at Jan. 26, 2015, 2:59 a.m...

What are the command line options to use this? Mine opens shows a splash screen, creates the .backgrounds file then pretty closes.

############################
Re-install with OpenBSD

jimmer
From London, Ingerlund
Who joined Oct. 12, 2004, 3:54 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 11, 2015, 5:17 a.m...

@khalidschofield - sorry for late late response. Pretty is a bit blond I'm afraid, there's no actual binary and no command-line options. It's just a script that pops-up a splash on install, copies some background images to your machine and then modifies your backgrounds index file so you can set the copied images as a background using the stock background control panel. (Desktop->Customise->Background).