OS/2 Wallpapers

3DWARP.ZIP 1024x768 24bit .BMP for Warp Desktops. Clint Wheeler North Vancouver, BC Canada

Assorted collection of eComStation related wallpapers for your desktop.

An eComStation 1.2 lockup image. File includes 1280x1024 and 1024x768 resolutions and the Adobe Photoshop PST file if you wish to modify the image.

Nice background pictures for OS/2 in two sizes

The well-known Propaganda series of tile- able background images. Each WarpIN archive contains a few dozen images. These images are a great addition to any background changing app, like The Wall from Pretty Pop Software.

The well-known Propaganda series of tile- able background images. Each WarpIN archive contains a few dozen images. These images are a great addition to any background changing app, like The Wall from Pretty Pop Software.

The well-known Propaganda series of tile- able background images. Each WarpIN archive contains a few dozen images. These images are a great addition to any background changing app, like The Wall from Pretty Pop Software.

The well-known Propaganda series of tile- able background images. Each WarpIN archive contains a few dozen images. These images are a great addition to any background changing app, like The Wall from Pretty Pop Software.

The well-known Propaganda series of tile- able background images. Each WarpIN archive contains a few dozen images. These images are a great addition to any background changing app, like The Wall from Pretty Pop Software.

The well-known Propaganda series of tile- able background images. Each WarpIN archive contains a few dozen images. These images are a great addition to any background changing app, like The Wall from Pretty Pop Software.

A bitmap of StationAlpha for use as wallpaper

Some big but pretty images for folder and desktop backgrouns in JPEG format

3D OS/2 on colorful background (640 X 480)

ArtByMath Wall Paper Designs HTML Installation ================================================== February 17th, 1997 http://www.ArtByMath.com *) The "Zipped" distribution file containing HTML & GIF files should be unzip using the "-d" option in any directory of your choice. The "-d" option will create the required directory structure so that you can use your Web Browser to view the Wall Paper Designs via HTML. With Netscape, you then use the "OPEN FILE" command and load the "INDEX.HTM" file to correctly use and browse the entire Wall Paper Display system. You should note that the BMP Wall Paper Collection can not be viewed or used via a Web Browser! Only the GIF collection works as such! The BMP collection can be unzipped into any directory of your choice, and you can copy and move the files you need according to your needs. *) If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the artist via email

Some bitmaps from Merlin beta ...

This is a 3D rendering of a Canadian flag "plastered" with OS/2 all over it. The file is in .PNG format, and when converted to a .BMP format (using PMView or Jview) it makes a nice desktop background for OS/2. The .PNG is in 1024x768 and 256 colours. This bitmap is of course public domain, so use it and abuse it to your heart's content. highest regards, Simon Pasieka Feb. 1996

April 12, 1995 Greetings All, A couple of days ago I uploaded a capture of my desktop to comp.os.os2.advocacy , comp.os.os2.misc and comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy and since then have had tons of e-mail coming in. To all who responded thanks for the good words! Enclosed in this archive are either my 256 colour bitmaps or my 65000 colour bitmaps and textures and hints on setting OS/2 the way I have. Enjoy Regards, Peter Conteos Contents. 1. Included files 2. Hints on configuring OS/2 3. How to set it all up 4. The Rexx scripts 5. Word on textures and seamless tiling 6. Credits 1. The included files. -deskcap.bmp : Screen capture of my desktop (256 or 64k colour) -desktop.bmp : Bitmap to be used as background (1024x768x 256 or 64k) -but_def1.bmp and but_def2.bmp : Textures with grey buttons -but_list.bmp : Bitmap for list style folder -all other bitmaps are textures -howto.txt :How to setup desktop and other usefull stuff(this file) -snap.cmd and reflow.cmd : Rexx script (description in this file) *** All bitmaps are in OS/2 bitmap format and may not work with Windows viewers. They all work fine with OS/2.**** 2. Hints on configuring OS/2. First of all I would like to mention my hardware setup, OS/2 software used and sites of interest. Hardware: 486/66 12 MB RAM (Really would like 16) 860 Meg Hard disk ATI XPression 2MB DRAM (Desperately want VRAM) 17' Monitor 14400 Modem Panasonic 2x CDROM Other bullshit Average to low end system for todays standards but works great. Software: Warp ofcoarse (How do you spell this damn word, is this correct?) PMView as graphic viewer (EXCELLENT PRODUCT!! Definate register) JPGView for desktop capture Two Rexx scripts I have written that allign icons to a grid in a folder. (included) Sites of interest: For textures, there are two sites I found, one WWW and one FTP. FTP: avalon.vislab.navy.mil /pub/textures/tif WWW: http://www.seanet.com/ProfessionalCollection/catalog.html There are some resource considerations when setting up your desktop with bitmaps all over, namely RAM. I run my desktop at 1024x768x65000k and have constantly 18 folders open all with backround bitmaps and a fullscreen desktop bitmap. I have estimated all these bitmaps eat up about 4meg of ram so my system runs like it has only 8 megs. If I switch to a 256 colour resolution this I reckon should be cut to 2 meg used. Any one with eight megs ram or less should not consider using to many bitmaps. Also I wouldn,t recommend my kind of setup with a resolution less than 800x600. I will first explain how my desktop works and then how to set it up. The functionality of my desktop. It is a good idea to have an image of my desktop displaying when reading this (deskcap.bmp ; this is slightly different than the one I uuencoded onto the newsgroups) All my folders are displayed around the edges of the screen. There are great advantages of having all your icons in folders like this. For instance if I have 3 or 4 aplications running covering up most of my screen and folders and I want to acces my drives, I click to the top of the screen and my drives folder pops up. If I want to print, fax, or shredd something I click to the bottom of my screen and all objects having some kind of drag and drop utility are displayed. The folder to the right has my main groups ie comms, games,projects, system setup etc and these can be accessed similarily. If icons are placed on the desktop one would have to minimize or move their apps so as to get to the icon. I have only 5 icons on my desktop and they are hidden under the drop folder because I never use them. I will explain in depth all my folders now. The Right Side folder: This folder is my 'Main' folder. The icons in it are folder objects and these folders open on the Left Side. The icons are: -System Setup -Utilities -Minimized Window viewer -Communications -Words -Numbers -Graphics -Multimedia -Games -Information -Program Developement -Projects The icon that opens the main folder is hidden under the drop folder. The Left Side folders: On the left side there are 12 folders corresponding to the icons on the right side folder. They perfectly overlap eachother and are always open. When an icon is selected on the right side folder the appropriate folder comes to the foreground instantly. It almost looks like it is an application as only the icons change! The Top Folder: This folder contains anything drives related. All my drives and partitions, the OS/2 seek and scan utility and an excellent program for doing disk copies and other things (PMDDE21.zip ?) The icon that opens this folder is hidden under the drop folder. The Drop Folder: This is the only folder that kind of looks like a folder because the title bar cannot be hidden off screen like the others. This pisses me off. However it is a very important folder and is actually three folders in one. On the folder you see I have from right to left: -Shredder (duh) -Printer (another duh) -Fax (does not open the fax applet but faxes documents) -PMDIFF (a utility that compares two files, uses drop) -A folder for zipfiles, temporary long term storage (?) etc.. -A folder containing all my icons -Text template -Document template -Folder template -Program template -The last two are special icons I found that I run out of space for templates and other drag and drop stuff so I invented this system. These icons open similar looking folders hidden right under the drop folder. These folders contain either more templates or more drag and drop icons.They also contain an icon to get you back to the main drop folder. In my 'drop2' folder I have Images,Media,A shadow of the os2/dll directory, Info, Snap to grid, and Re-allign objects. The last two objects are included in this archive. The icon that opens this folder is under itself (sneaky eh?) The Clock folder: This folder contains all the PIM stuff included with warp. It also contains a shadow of the clock app which is hidden under the clock so when the folder is selected and the clock is covered up you can bring the clock back by clicking on its icon. The icon that opens this folder is hidden under the drop folder. I think this covers my setup pretty well. An example of how I would start a new document (like this) follows. Click on the projects icon (on the right side folder) drag a document template from the drop folder into the projects folder (on the left side) change the name of document with alt-left click open the document and presto. A couple of things I should mention about the projects folder. First the physical location of this folder is not in the 'Main' folder (the right side folder) but rather on my hardrive as directory d:\data\projects . The projects icon in the main folder is a shadow of this directory. I have done this because I do not like actual data and files in my c:\desktop\ structure but just folder,program and shadow objects. Secondly, the projects folder (as well as the 'Minimized Window Viewer' and the 'Information' folder) may contain similar looking icons, so the text of these icons distinguishes them. To solve this problem, these folders have a different 'look'. The folders are in the exact some position as the other left side folders but their backround bitmaps are in a list fashion and the icons are flowed with their text showing. (use enclosed but_list.bmp as background tiled). 3. How to set it all up. It is important to first understand the directory structure of my layout. Directory of c:\desktop Main Drop PIM Drives Directory of c:\desktop\Main System Setup Utilties Minimized Window Viewer Communications Words Numbers Graphics Multimedia Games Information Program Developement Projects (shadow of d:\data\projects ) Directory of c:\desktop\Drop Drop2 Templates2 Icons (shadow of d:\data\icons ) ZipFiles (shadow of d:\data\zipfiles ) Directory of c:\desktop\drop\drop2 Drop (shadow of c:\desktop\drop ) Directory of c:\desktop\drop\templates2 Drop (shadow of c:\desktop\drop ) Templates (templates folder installed with OS2) The rest of the icons in all these folders are either program objects or regular folders (like the ones that came with OS2 ie Productivity,Command Prompts etc ... There are two different types of folders, the folders with just icons and the folders with icons and text(look at the folder on the left side that says 'down' on the title). WARNING!!! The scheme palette should not be used in making any folders as there is a bug with this object. If you drag a scheme into a folder, every time you open the folder it will get shorter by four pixels!! This is not good!!! Using templates is the easiest way to setup the folders. How to set up an icon only folder template. -Drag a folder from the folder template and place it on the desktop. -Open the folders settings -On the first page deselect 'visible' -Select 'change font...' and set the font to size 1 -Go to the 'Background' page and drag the background you want (but_def1.bmp ) for the grey button. Make sure 'tiled' is selected. -Go to the 'General' page and change the name to something appropriate and select 'Template' -Close the settings and you have a 'button bar' object. When you drag on of these objects you can then rename it and position it accordingly. You can then place other objects in this folder right on the grey box. I have a couple of Rexx scripts included in this archive that will allign the icons perfectly but read the instructions at the end of this file for more information about this. If you want to set up an existing folder you must do this manually, as above, for each folder. (If the scheme pallete worked properlly you wouldn't have to do this, anyway) The other type of folder is for icons and text: -Do the first two things as above -On the first page select 'Flowed' and "Small Size' -Select 'change font' and set the font to 'helv' size 8 -Go to the background page and drag 'but_list.bmp' -Go to the General page and change the name and select 'Template' -Close the settings and you are done. To set up the clock as mine you must use the scheme palette to get rid of the border. Select a 'New Scheme' and change the border width to 1 and 1. Drag the scheme onto the clock, presto, done. You can then change the colours of the clock to your liking by using the clocks settings. I hope this covers everything regarding setup. 4. The Rexx scripts. These small batch files snap.cmd and reflow.cmd help in setting up your icons nicely. The snap.cmd file arranges icons to the nearest 'proper' position , whereas the reflow.cmd file re-arranges the icons from top to bottom on the specified grid. There are several things to consider. -In the settings for these files on the parameters line two numbers are required. The first number is the size of your icons in pixels and the second number is the width in pixels that you want the icons to be spaced. On my system the icons are 40x40 and the button bitmaps are 64 pixels wide, therefore I have '40 64' on my parameters line. -The folder that you want alligned must be closed. -The folder name must have only one word ie 'SystemSetup' not 'System Setup' . To use these routines simply drag the icon of the closed folder on to the cmd file and after it is done the icons in the folder are aligned. If you have any problems with these routines let me know. I am in no way responsible for anything these routines do to your system. They work fine on my system. 5. Word on textures and seamless tiling. Many of the textures included do not tile seamlessly in a nice way. For some textures you can accomplish a pseudo seamless look by inverting the texture and pasting it next to eachother. Look at wood3_2.bmp for an example. 6. Credits Credit must be given to whomever created these textures in the first place, since I only downloaded them from various ftp and www sites. One bitmap in particular, the brown texture in the middle of the screen with the warp logo I downloaded from THE SHAREWARE BBS. I superimposed this over a granite texture for the final look. They have many more great bitmaps there by the way. Well thats it! Hope this all makes sense and good luck beautifying your WPS. Regards, Peter Conteos P.S. Post any general questions on comp.os.os2.misc so that I don't have to answer the same question ten times. Thanks!!

A collection of background BMPs stolen from an Amiga 3000... Conversion by Enrico Demarin 1994 Have fun !

BARTOS2.ZIP 1/29/94 Bart Simpson on OS/2 and WIndows. Useful as a background screen or screen saver in OS/2 Saved as a OS2 2.0 RLE-BMP - Converted from a windows bitmap. Domenico Vitarella Latham, N.Y.