bsetroot
bsetroot.exe is a Blackbox for Windows tool that lets you set your desktop background to be either a gradient,
a square pattern ("modula"), a solid colour, a bitmap, or a combination of a bitmap and a solid colour.

Switches:

-help Shows some help text...
-gradient type -from colour -to colour Paints a gradient on your desktop background.
"from" and "to" are standard colours (see above). "type" can be any of:
vertical, horizontal, diagonal, crossdiagonal, pipecross, elliptic, rectangle, pyramid.
You can also have them interlaced by appending interlaced to the option, e.g. verticalinterlaced. Gradients work exactly like the ones in Blackbox for Windows.
-mod x y -fg colour -bg colour Paints a square pattern on your desktop background.
"x" and "y" set the size of the squares. "fg" and "bg" are standard colours (see above).
-solid colour Changes the desktop background to the colour you specify (can be in any format Blackbox accepts, ie. grey, rgb:80/80/80, #808080 ).
-bitmap style bitmap Sets the bitmap (.bmp) as your wallpaper. Style can be tile, stretch or center.
-bitmap style bitmap -solid colour Sets the bitmap (.bmp) as your wallpaper and changes the desktop background to the colour you specify (see above; this is naturally only useful for centered bitmaps! <g>).

Version 1.8 (2003-04-01)
  • ~ Cleaned up the code and corrected some resource leaks grischka
  • ~ Fixed 16-bit support grischka
  • Version 1.7 (2002-09-05)

  • + Now uses the same rendering engine as Blackbox for Windows 0.0.60 ironhead/qwilk + nivenh
  • + Added -mod support ironhead
  • + It is now possible to use -bitmap and -solid concurrently (useful for centered bitmaps) qwilk
  • ~ Fixed a bug where Diagonal would be drawn instead of CrossDiagonal ironhead
  • + Created the missing 48x48 pixel icon... :) qwilk
  • ~ Cleaned up the code and made minor changes all over the place... =] qwilk/ironhead
  • # bsetroot is now open source...
  • Version 1.0.0.6 (2002-03-03)

  • + Reintroduced the "stretch" bitmap style option qwilk
  • ~ Fixed an issue using rgb: colours, added more colour definitions deadbeat
  • ~ Fixed a memory leak in the gradient code steev/nivenh
  • + New HTML documentation qwilk
  • Version 1.0.0.5 (2002-01-03)

  • ~ Changed literal parsing azathoth
  • Version 1.0.0.4 (2002-01-02)

  • - Removed stretch option azathoth
  • ~ Updated to use new BImage version azathoth
  • Version 1.0.0.3 (2001-12-30)

  • ~ Fixed colour order azathoth
  • Version 1.0.0.2 (2001-12-29)

  • ~ Swapped colour rendering azathoth
  • ~ Fixed gradients so elliptic shows correctly and other gradients render more nicely azathoth

  • © 2001-2002 The Blackbox for Windows Development Team