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caravanlizzy

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Registered: 2013-10-07

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[solve] change desktop wallpaper!

hello,

im using openbox and i added my .fehbg to my autostart file in the openbox folder. i had the problem, that some other instance is changing the bnackground after the autostart file, so my preferred picture only stayed for 1 second. for now i solved this by adding a sleep function, so that the execution of ~/.fehbg is after the influence of the other instance. but id like to solve this in a wy, that doesnt make my desktop background jump around at the startup!

lizzy

Last edited by caravanlizzy (2014-06-02 20:33:49)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [solve] change desktop wallpaper!

What is the content of your openbox autostart file?
How are you starting openbox? Display manager or ~/.xinitrc?

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Inxsible

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Re: [solve] change desktop wallpaper!

please provide the output of the following command as well :

uname -a

&

pacman -Qi openbox

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caravanlizzy

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Re: [solve] change desktop wallpaper!

my autostarts content is:

#(sleep 3 && /usr/bin/nm-applet --sm-disable) &
tint2 &
volumeicon &
hsetroot -fill /usr/share/wallpapers/nightsky.jpg  &
#clipit &
conky &
sleep 2 && sh .fehbg &


# Enable as required
#xbacklight -set 100 &
#/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=1 &
#xxkb &
#spacefm -d &
#setxkbmap gb &

im starting via login-manager.

uname output is:

Linux arch 3.14.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 13 16:44:54 CEST 2014 i686 GNU/Linux

and

pacman -Qi openbox
Name           : openbox
Version              : 3.5.2-6
Beschreibung         : Highly configurable and lightweight X11 window manager
Architektur          : i686
URL                  : http://openbox.org
Lizenzen             : GPL
Gruppen              : lxde
Stellt bereit        : Nichts
Hängt ab von         : startup-notification  libxml2  libxinerama  libxrandr
                       libxcursor  pango  imlib2  librsvg
Optionale Abhängigkeiten: kdebase-workspace: for the KDE/Openbox xsession
                          python2-xdg: for the openbox-xdg-autostart
                          script[Installiert]
Benötigt von         : obconf  obmenu-generator  openbox-themes
Optional für: Nichts
Konflikt mit         : Nichts
Ersetzt              : Nichts
Installationsgröße:  1184,00 KiB
Packer               : Bartłomiej Piotrowski <b@bpiotrowski.pl>
Erstellt am          : Sa 26 Okt 2013 10:18:36 EDT
Installiert am       : Di 20 Mai 2014 04:26:45 EDT
Installationsgrund   : Ausdrücklich installiert
Installations-Skript : Nein
Verifiziert durch: Signatur

my system is german, but i guess you still understand the pacman -Qi!

thanks

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [solve] change desktop wallpaper!

hsetroot -fill /usr/share/wallpapers/nightsky.jpg  &

This also sets the background --- comment this out & see if that works...

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caravanlizzy

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Re: [solve] change desktop wallpaper!

oh wow! that was really stupid! of course it works now
thanks

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [solve] change desktop wallpaper!

Good stuff, glad to help

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