Author Topic: [SOLVED] Changing the wallpaper in wattOS  (Read 3037 times)

shijimi

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[SOLVED] Changing the wallpaper in wattOS
« on: October 22, 2015, 10:56:50 PM »
Hi all,

I'm using the wattOS R9 Microwatt version, and I'm totally in love with it!
I want to change the desktop background wallpaper, but I have no idea how to do it in this version of wattOS.

Does anyone have any clue to do it?

P.S. I've tried typing ' gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file:///filename" ' in the terminal, but I had no success :(

Thanks in advance!!
« Last Edit: October 23, 2015, 10:51:07 PM by shijimi »

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Re: Changing the wallpaper in wattOS
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2015, 02:14:30 AM »
Welcome aboard. Right click on the desktop. Select desktop preferences.

shijimi

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Re: Changing the wallpaper in wattOS
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2015, 10:21:59 AM »
Thanks for your reply!

However, I'm using the Microwatt version with i3 window manager, so I can't right click the desktop...

Any other ways?

cheiron

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Re: Changing the wallpaper in wattOS
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2015, 01:47:54 PM »
Can't go into details atm as on phone typing this but looking possible install of nitrogen or feh could help as wallpaper is done I believe by default in X11. Variety could be another program.  I'll post again when I get back to my main pc

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Re: Changing the wallpaper in wattOS
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2015, 06:09:16 PM »
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way; http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

... and when SOLVED, please edit thread title in first post! :)

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Re: Changing the wallpaper in wattOS
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2015, 06:35:12 PM »
Hi blaze...


Its as i thought on my post.. external program like nitrogen. feh is not the easiest to use being arch mainly !!


anyways thanks for posting the link as i was on my phone at the time when i answered.


Hope the link helps shijimi

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Re: Changing the wallpaper in wattOS
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2015, 10:47:21 PM »
Hello blaze and cheiron

Thanks for replying to my post!
The link blaze posted really helped.
I was able to successfully change the desktop image by typing
"feh --bg-scale /path/to/image.file"
in my .fehbg file, and by also changing the
"exec --no-startup-id feh --bg-scale /path/to/image"
in my .i3/config file.

Thank you all for helping me!!
« Last Edit: October 23, 2015, 10:49:41 PM by shijimi »

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Re: [SOLVED] Changing the wallpaper in wattOS
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2015, 04:55:34 AM »
Awesome!  Glad you got it all sorted  ;D