There are two ways to set the background in Fluxbox: globally and for a specific style. The global background will be used with any style that doesn't set its own background, but the style background will override the global background.
There are different ways of setting the global background, but the easiest I've found is to use
gsetroot. It's in the repos and it's a little GUI frontend to
esetroot, which you'll already have if you installed the latest Fluxbox from the repos.
To set a specific background for a specific style you need to edit the style's file in
~/.flubox/styles using
background. Using
background is explained here:
http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php/Background
As it says in the wiki,
background has replaced
rootCommand, but I've found that a lot of styles that specify their backgrounds still use
rootCommand. Assuming you're using the current Fluxbox, you need to edit the style to use
background to get it to work.
The wiki also covers alternative ways to set the global background, if you don't want to use
gsetroot.
(Another thing I found when trying to get styles to work properly is that the specified fonts don't always work without some tinkering. This applies to a couple of the artwiz fonts, and may apply to others. For example, one style specified the
mints-strong font, but it wasn't working. Everything looked ok because the name of the font's
.pcf file was as it was specified in the style file - with the hyphen. But when I looked at its properties, the font's 'real' name is
mintsstrong. I changed it to that in the style file and it worked.)
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