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KSiimson

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Registered: 2007-06-16

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Make SLiM set wallpaper

I am not sure how this happened, but on my other laptop SLiM sets the wallpaper for Openbox. On my new laptop, SLiM gets loaded from inittab, and once I am logged in, SLiM's wallpaper gets lost. Probably an easy problem, so hopefully I find out how to make my new laptop behave the same soon.

HyperBaton

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Registered: 2008-01-18

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Re: Make SLiM set wallpaper

I'm no expert in login managers etc., but why would the SLiM background be kept after logging in? It's a login manager after all. I use SLiM and Gnome, after I log in with SLiM, Gnome displays the background I want.

thayer

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Re: Make SLiM set wallpaper

It isn't that slim set your background on your old laptop; it's because your old laptop must not have used any utilities to manage the desktop, so what happened is that the slim background got 'stuck' on your desktop because nothing else refreshed it.  My guess is that your new setup is running gnome-settings-daemon, or some other desktop utility which is now refreshing the desktop as soon as you log in.

Hope this helps.

Last edited by thayer (2008-04-19 21:24:41)

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Tenken

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Registered: 2008-02-01

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Re: Make SLiM set wallpaper

SLiM doesn't actually set your background, I think that the images just stays in the background unless you over ride it. I don't know if it does this on my openbox setup because I use another program to set my wallpaper, but when I was playing around with awesome the desktop kept SLiM's background. Maybe a newer version of SLiM or openbox changed this behavior.

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Re: Make SLiM set wallpaper

Nor SLiM or Openbox set your background . So get a utility to set one and the problem should disappear.

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theringmaster

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Re: Make SLiM set wallpaper

I think feh sets backgrounds, correct?

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KSiimson

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Registered: 2007-06-16

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Re: Make SLiM set wallpaper

Okay. I investigated my old laptop, and made SLiM run as a daemon and replaced openbox-session with openbox is .xinitrc. Then I put all the autostart applications in there. Also, I changed the inittab back to original. Now SLiM sets the background for me.

Last edited by KSiimson (2008-04-20 01:29:11)

thayer

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Re: Make SLiM set wallpaper

Okay. I investigated my old laptop, and made SLiM run as a daemon and replaced openbox-session with openbox is .xinitrc. Then I put all the autostart applications in there. Also, I changed the inittab back to original. Now SLiM sets the background for me.

Well, I guess that's one way to go about it, but not exactly the proper way.  For the record, in case someone else stumbles onto this thread looking for a solution:

openbox-session, by default, will attempt to load the 'gnome-settings-daemon', which manages the desktop, including wallpaper.  This is controlled by the default Openbox autostart script: /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh

To avoid these defaults, simply create your own openbox autostart script:

$ touch ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh

Edit this file and add whatever programs you want to load at startup; for example:

$ cat .config/openbox/autostart.sh

# launch these with openbox-session
gnome-volume-manager &
numlockx &
xset r rate 250 50 &
xsetroot -solid black &
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr &
xbindkeys &
xscreensaver -no-splash &

If you ever want to load the default Openbox autostart settings, simply add this to your own autostart.sh:

. $GLOBALAUTOSTART

For example:

$ cat .config/openbox/autostart.sh

# Run the system-wide support stuff located in
# /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh
. $GLOBALAUTOSTART

# launch these with openbox-session
gnome-volume-manager &
numlockx &
xset r rate 250 50 &
xsetroot -solid black &
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr &
xbindkeys &
xscreensaver -no-splash &

Last edited by thayer (2008-04-20 02:47:56)

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zenlord

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Registered: 2006-05-24

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Re: Make SLiM set wallpaper

I think feh sets backgrounds, correct?

Yep. PCmanFM also gets the job done (and is et the same time a very good, small filemanager)

Zl.