Mulitple images on root desktop

[whoopi_cat]

To call me a newbie in regards to ImageMagick would be to insult the concept of newness. If my DNA self-evolved for 4.5e+45 generations, perhaps then I could be thought of as the distant ancestor of a newbie's great-great-grandfather's little finger.

But nonetheless, there's something I need to figure out relatively quickly while I go through the copious examples on the examples page.

The following lines place images on my desktop in the locations that I need:

display -window root -geometry +0+0 gong.gif
display -window root -geometry +150+340 GongLogo_120.jpg

But the problem is that when the second image is displayed, the first disappears. I really need to just ADD it to the desktop. (As you can guess, it's the label for the gif.)

Also, the gif only plays once instead of looping. Any idea of how to get it to loop?

Thanks and Regards,

Whoopi Cat

[whoopi_cat]

Well, here's an answer to my second question: animate causes gifs to loop in windows (although it seg faults on my 500MB RAM box):

animate -window root -geometry +0+0 gong.gif

Whoopi Cat