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atc

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-05-27

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Dual screen wallpaper in Awesome

Hey,

Not sure it's the right place to ask but here goes..

I'm using Arch with the Awesome WM. I have a dual screen setup where both screens share the same Awesome config (so, ONE screen {} in .awesomerc).
I set the wallpaper with feh by adding "eval `cat $HOME/.fehbg` &" to .xinitrc and my problem is that it only sets the wallpaper on my primary screen.

What I want is two different wallpapers on two different screens/monitors. How is this done?

Also, I'm able to set the wallpapers in both screens by manually running "feh --bg-center file1.jpg" in one and "feh --bg-center file2.jpg" in the other one.

Last edited by atc (2008-06-18 14:13:13)

Tenken

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Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 126

Re: Dual screen wallpaper in Awesome

I don't know if this will be the same with awesome, but I use nitrogen to set my dual screen wallpapers in openbox.

atc

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 17

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Re: Dual screen wallpaper in Awesome

Nitrogen did the trick. Thanks a lot.

d4r3llo5

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Registered: 2013-07-19

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Re: Dual screen wallpaper in Awesome

-- For others who stumble upon this like I did --
**In the code, for more than two monitors, switch statements might be cleaner
If you don't want to install another application, you can apparently with beautiful/gears:

-- {{{ Wallpaper
if beautiful.wallpaper then
    for s = 1, screen.count() do
        --gears.wallpaper.maximized(beautiful.wallpaper, s, true)
        if s < 2 then
          gears.wallpaper.maximized("path_to_image_one", s, true)
        else
          gears.wallpaper.maximized("path_to_image_two", s, true)
        end
    end
end
-- }}}