Background image in Vim window(s)?

[Russell Bateman]

I know this sounds frivolous, but I've checked the helps and can't see
any way to impose a simple .gif on Vim's background. There's a 50-byte
.gif I use as the background to my GNOME terminal windows that's soft
and unobtrusive and facilitates line orientation visually.

Whatever my reasons, can you confirm that imposing a .gif on Vim's
background is simply not provided for?

Thanks and best regards to all,

Russ

[Chris Allen]

Post by Russell Bateman
Whatever my reasons, can you confirm that imposing a .gif on Vim's
background is simply not provided for?

I believe that is more or less the case. All is not lost, however.
You can use an xterm with support (obviously). You could possibly
also try the skinning facilities in the Motif[1] or GTK[2] GUIs (going
over Vim's head, as it were).

HTH,
Chris Allen

[1] XResources, for those of you new to X.
[2] I think that's possible, but GTK configuration files are pure pain.

[Russell Bateman]

(Sorry, I forgot to specify gVim since using mere Vim in my terminal
window obviously benefits from its background.)

Post by Chris Allen

Post by Russell Bateman
Whatever my reasons, can you confirm that imposing a .gif on Vim's
background is simply not provided for?

I believe that is more or less the case. All is not lost, however.
You can use an xterm with support (obviously). You could possibly
also try the skinning facilities in the Motif[1] or GTK[2] GUIs (going
over Vim's head, as it were).
HTH,
Chris Allen
[1] XResources, for those of you new to X.
[2] I think that's possible, but GTK configuration files are pure pain.

[Chris Allen]

Post by Russell Bateman
(Sorry, I forgot to specify gVim since using mere Vim in my terminal
window obviously benefits from its background.)

That is what I thought. My GUI toolkit suggestions will probably work
for you, but it'll take a bit of effort. Skinning the Motif gVim GUI
is probably easier than the GTK version of gVim, but both should be
possible with a bit of work.

HTH,
Chris Allen

Post by Russell Bateman

Post by Chris Allen
I believe that is more or less the case. All is not lost, however.
You can use an xterm with support (obviously). You could possibly
also try the skinning facilities in the Motif[1] or GTK[2] GUIs (going
over Vim's head, as it were).
HTH,
Chris Allen
[1] XResources, for those of you new to X.
[2] I think that's possible, but GTK configuration files are pure pain.

[Tim Chase]

Post by Russell Bateman
I know this sounds frivolous, but I've checked the helps
and can't see any way to impose a simple .gif on Vim's
background. There's a 50-byte .gif I use as the
background to my GNOME terminal windows that's soft and
unobtrusive and facilitates line orientation visually.
Whatever my reasons, can you confirm that imposing a .gif
on Vim's background is simply not provided for?

I suspect you've got some colorscheme which doesn't use a
black background. I tried it in my gnome terminal here, and
as long as my colorscheme had a black (color #0) background,
it was fine. When I tried changing to a colorscheme with a
non-black background (say ":colorscheme blue"), it went
solid and prevented me from seeing my background.

If you like your colorscheme, you might try copying it to
your ~/.vim/colors directory and tweaking it. You also
might try tinkering with the 'background' setting (setting
it to "dark").

:help 'background'

-tim

[Suresh Govindachar]

Russell Bateman Sent March 15, 2006 9:15 AM

Post by Russell Bateman
I know this sounds frivolous, but I've checked the helps and
can't see any way to impose a simple .gif on Vim's background.
There's a 50-byte .gif I use as the background to my GNOME
terminal windows that's soft and unobtrusive and facilitates
line orientation visually.
Whatever my reasons, can you confirm that imposing a .gif on
Vim's background is simply not provided for?

Just an example: http://vim.eralston.net/index.php?id=navajo

--Suresh

[Russell Bateman]

Yeah, sure. Or so I wish. Well, I'm not insensitive to that background
at all, but it might take a while before I could get anything done at
work and it ain't gonna be 50 bytes either.

;-)

Thanks for the comic relief; I can always use some.

Russ

Post by Suresh Govindachar
Russell Bateman Sent March 15, 2006 9:15 AM

Post by Russell Bateman
I know this sounds frivolous, but I've checked the helps and
can't see any way to impose a simple .gif on Vim's background.
There's a 50-byte .gif I use as the background to my GNOME
terminal windows that's soft and unobtrusive and facilitates
line orientation visually.
Whatever my reasons, can you confirm that imposing a .gif on
Vim's background is simply not provided for?

Just an example: http://vim.eralston.net/index.php?id=navajo
--Suresh

[Gene Kwiecinski]

Post by Suresh Govindachar
Just an example: http://vim.eralston.net/index.php?id=navajo

Hmmm. Excellent idea.

Btw, anyone know who that is in the pic? Looks *really* familiar, but
am still drawing a blank.

Better yet, anyone have an url where the pic can be gotten? :D

[Russell Bateman]

Kate Beckinsale. I was thinking it might be drawn from the film
entitled, Pearl Harbor, but probably not.

Post by Gene Kwiecinski

Post by Suresh Govindachar
Just an example: http://vim.eralston.net/index.php?id=navajo

Hmmm. Excellent idea.
Btw, anyone know who that is in the pic? Looks *really* familiar, but
am still drawing a blank.
Better yet, anyone have an url where the pic can be gotten? :D

[Gerald Lai]

Post by Gene Kwiecinski

Post by Suresh Govindachar
Just an example: http://vim.eralston.net/index.php?id=navajo

Hmmm. Excellent idea.
Btw, anyone know who that is in the pic? Looks *really* familiar, but
am still drawing a blank.
Better yet, anyone have an url where the pic can be gotten? :D

Kate Beckinsale. I was thinking it might be drawn from the film entitled,
Pearl Harbor, but probably not.

Perhaps not :) Here's a hint:

David Bowie and a large maze

--
Gerald

[David Thompson]

Nope, that is Jennifer Connelly. You may remember her opposite
Russell Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind" (she won the Oscar for
Best Supporting Actress in 2002 for that part).

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000124/
http://www.eonline.com/Features/Awards/Oscars2002/Scorecard/index.html
http://www.celebritywonder.com/html/jenniferconnelly.html
http://www.celebritywonder.com/html/jenniferconnelly_poster1.html

On the last link, scroll down a bit you'll see a thumbnail
of the photograph for sale.

Post by Russell Bateman
Kate Beckinsale. I was thinking it might be drawn from the film
entitled, Pearl Harbor, but probably not.

Post by Gene Kwiecinski

Post by Suresh Govindachar
Just an example: http://vim.eralston.net/index.php?id=navajo

Hmmm. Excellent idea.
Btw, anyone know who that is in the pic? Looks *really* familiar, but
am still drawing a blank.
Better yet, anyone have an url where the pic can be gotten? :D

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-----Original Message-----
Sent: 15 March 2006 18:39
Subject: RE: Background image in Vim window(s)?
Russell Bateman Sent March 15, 2006 9:15 AM

Post by Russell Bateman
I know this sounds frivolous, but I've checked the helps and
can't see any way to impose a simple .gif on Vim's background.
There's a 50-byte .gif I use as the background to my GNOME
terminal windows that's soft and unobtrusive and facilitates
line orientation visually.
Whatever my reasons, can you confirm that imposing a .gif on
Vim's background is simply not provided for?

Just an example: http://vim.eralston.net/index.php?id=navajo

Good example, but as hard as I tried it didn't make my line
orientation visually easier :-).

---Zdenek

[Gene Kwiecinski]

Hmm. You sure? Doesn't quite look like her in that pic, might be a
weird angle, dunno.

I was thinking more along the lines of Jennifer Connelly (eg, "You've
Got a Beautiful Brain" or whatever), but am drawing a blank as to
what/where, as other'n YGaBB, I haven't seen many/any other pix she was
in.

Hey, maybe I can just email E Ralston and ask... :\


-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Bateman [mailto:***@windofkeltia.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:11 PM
To: Gene Kwiecinski
Cc: Suresh Govindachar; ***@vim.org
Subject: Re: Background image in Vim window(s)?

Kate Beckinsale. I was thinking it might be drawn from the film
entitled, Pearl Harbor, but probably not.

Post by Gene Kwiecinski

Post by Suresh Govindachar
Just an example: http://vim.eralston.net/index.php?id=navajo

Hmmm. Excellent idea.
Btw, anyone know who that is in the pic? Looks *really* familiar, but
am still drawing a blank.
Better yet, anyone have an url where the pic can be gotten? :D

[Gene Kwiecinski]

Post by Gerald Lai

Post by Russell Bateman
Kate Beckinsale. I was thinking it might be drawn from the film

entitled,

Post by Gerald Lai

Post by Russell Bateman
Pearl Harbor, but probably not.

David Bowie and a large maze

DB and a maze? Now I'm *completely* lost...

I'll find it, hopefully...

[Gene Kwiecinski]

Aha! I *knew* she looked familiar. Tnx!

Hamina-hamina-hamina...


-----Original Message-----
From: David Thompson [mailto:***@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 2:02 AM
To: Russell Bateman; Gene Kwiecinski
Cc: Suresh Govindachar; ***@vim.org
Subject: Re: Background image in Vim window(s)?

Nope, that is Jennifer Connelly. You may remember her opposite
Russell Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind" (she won the Oscar for
Best Supporting Actress in 2002 for that part).

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000124/
http://www.eonline.com/Features/Awards/Oscars2002/Scorecard/index.html
http://www.celebritywonder.com/html/jenniferconnelly.html
http://www.celebritywonder.com/html/jenniferconnelly_poster1.html

On the last link, scroll down a bit you'll see a thumbnail
of the photograph for sale.

Post by Russell Bateman
Kate Beckinsale. I was thinking it might be drawn from the film
entitled, Pearl Harbor, but probably not.

Post by Gene Kwiecinski

Post by Suresh Govindachar
Just an example: http://vim.eralston.net/index.php?id=navajo

Hmmm. Excellent idea.
Btw, anyone know who that is in the pic? Looks *really* familiar,

but

Post by Russell Bateman

Post by Gene Kwiecinski
am still drawing a blank.
Better yet, anyone have an url where the pic can be gotten? :D

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