knoppix 9/5/03 icewm : problem setting background

[beforewisdom]

Hi;

I'm using knoppix 9/5/03.

It has icewm 1.12

The background seems to want to stay as the debian swirl you see when your machine boots up.

I tried editing ~/.icewm/preferences directly and using icepref

I can't change the background.

Any ideas?

Steve