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Title: [SOLVED] Changing the wallpaper in wattOS
Post by: shijimi 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!!

Title: Re: Changing the wallpaper in wattOS
Post by: leenie on October 23, 2015, 02:14:30 AM

Welcome aboard. Right click on the desktop. Select desktop preferences.

Title: Re: Changing the wallpaper in wattOS
Post by: shijimi 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?

Title: Re: Changing the wallpaper in wattOS
Post by: cheiron 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

Title: Re: Changing the wallpaper in wattOS
Post by: blaze on October 23, 2015, 06:09:16 PM

Here is a useful link I think.  Oooh, it rhymed :)

https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6/how-can-i-set-a-desktop-background-image-in-i3/

Title: Re: Changing the wallpaper in wattOS
Post by: cheiron 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

Title: Re: Changing the wallpaper in wattOS
Post by: shijimi 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!!

Title: Re: [SOLVED] Changing the wallpaper in wattOS
Post by: cheiron on October 24, 2015, 04:55:34 AM

Awesome!  Glad you got it all sorted  ;D