First of all you need images to show as wallpaper. You can easily get them from various wallpaper sites on the web. Make sure you store the files in a single directory - you can organize them into sub-directories if there are too many.

Install feh which is an application for viewing images. This is in /usr/ports/graphics .
There are other wallpaper setting applications which can be used:

• Esetroot
• wmsetbg
• feh
• hsetroot
• chbg
• display
• qiv
• xv
• xsri
• xli
• xsetbg

Once installed, run fbsetbg (fluxbox set background) . Run it first with fbsetbg -i which makes sure that there is a suitable application to set the wallpaper. You can now set the background wallpaper by using the command

fbsetbg -f /path/to/graphic/file

Eg. fbsetbg -f /var/data/wallpaper.jpg

You can even specify wildcards and fbsetbg will set the first matching file as the wallpaper.

Given below is a sample full-blown fluxbox installation.

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