can ot setup a background

[Marc Lehmann]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 02:36:53PM +0530, arnuld <arnuld at ippimail.com> wrote:
> On Archlinux, I am using version:  rxvt-unicode (urxvt) v8.7 - released:
> 2007-11-25

what does urxvt -version say?

in general, for pixmap backgrounds, you need to link against libafterimage.

> urxvt*backgroundPixmap:				$HOME/.local/urxvt_BG

and unless you really have a directory called '$HOME' where you start
urxvt, this will likely not find the file, you need to specify the correct
path to the file (or use some preprocessor to expand $HOME).

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