Classic patterned bitmap tiled wallpapers

Recognition goes to Anthony Thyssen for maintaining these bitmaps for 25 years. These images (and more) are for now also available on his old page.

Rediscovered by /u/bdrum in this reddit post

Creating a repo to help preserve the find

Set with xsetroot. Examples:

• Simple example
  xsetroot -bitmap [selection].xbm
• Add colors
  xsetroot -bitmap [selection].xbm -bg "color" -fg "color"
• Leverage current colors from xrdb
  xsetroot -bitmap [selection].xbm "$(xrdb -query|awk '/\*color8:/ {print $2})" -fg "$(xrdb -query|awk '/\*color7:/ {print $2}')"

Pattern Previews