Am 25.01.10 17:39, schrieb Willi Egger:
> Hi,
>
> I thought that \setupbackgrounds[page][state=repeat] would result in 
> placing the defined background on every page. - It seems that I miss 
> something or the mechanism is broken.
This is the normal behaviour for layers, what you want is

\definelayer[PageLayer][...,state=repeat]


See also http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layers#State

Wolfgang