HowTo set the wallpaper in wmii

This took me a little bit, so i write it down.

In ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc, replace the following line:

xsetroot -solid '#0b1014'
with a command to set the background image, such as

eval `cat $HOME/.fehbg` &
(requires feh)

Now i don’t have to bother anymore with the configfile,

feh –bg-center ~/path/to/image sets the backgroundimage

and after a reboot the last shown picture is set.

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~ by princ3 on October 21, 2006.

3 Responses to “HowTo set the wallpaper in wmii”

  1. Hmm nice, but i think i have a better answer

    It is better to use xloadimage instead of feh.

    [CODE]
    xloadimage -onroot ~/Wallpaper-switch/wallpaper.png &
    [/CODE]

    Best Regards :)

  2. Better ? I think this is a matter of personal taste :)

  3. nice tip, thank you.

    You don’t need to reboot, just run :

    MOD – a wmiirc

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