xearth on xfce (was: Re: getting the most out of TWM)

On 14 Jul 2024 03:12:10 GMT, arnold@freefriends.org (Aharon Robbins) wrote
in <6693420a$0$711$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>:

In article <87ttgtf1ck.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere>,
Mike Spencer  <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:

BTW, I run XEarth for my root window.  Does anybody have/know the
location of the source code for XEarth?  I'd hate to give it up when I'm
eventually forced into 64 bits and I seem to have lost the source if I
ever had it.

 
I have put xearth 1.1 up on my site:
https://www.skeeve.com/xearth-1.1.tar.gz.
 
Get it while it's hot, I may not leave it there forever.
 
Enjoy,
 
Arnold

I'd love to run this on my root X window, but xfce seems
to want to cover it up with its own desktop.  Even
tried a transparent image as a background, but it still
covered the root window with a solid color.

Does anyone know how to get xfce to get out of the way,
and let me see the root X window in all its glory?

Also:  did a diff -r with the code from xearth.org, and
it's all the same code.  (That's a good thing. :)

Thanks,

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