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Hi, I am trying out LXDE, having been a gnome follower for a long time. I didnt like openbox much, so replaced it with mutter. most things are fine, but I am unable to figure out how to set a wallpaper.
Can anyone help?
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If I recall correctly LXDE uses pcmanfm to set its wallpaper under its configuration or options. Should you not have pcmanfm, even though it is in the lxde group, then you can use nitrogen for example. Search the forum or wiki for other suggestions.
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thanks, I moved back to openbox and got the wallpaper sorted using feh. It would be nice to be able to set wallpaper on a per desktop basis though without using pcmanfm.
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What do you mean by per desktop? Per monitor/screen or per [openbox] workspace/desktop?
Last edited by emeres (2014-08-01 23:52:19)
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I use openbox-multi head so for me per monitor = per workspace.
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But the workspaces are not fixed, you change them within a given monitor and I assume you want one wallpaper per monitor independent of the workspace it is displaying, correct? Nitrogen should be able to do that, it has multiple screen support. Depending on how you setup xorg, you could use feh with DISPLAY variable. Other than that, I used openbox-multihead for a very brief period of time, but you should be able to assign an image to certain display either within applications or display specific part of openbox rc.
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good to hear that. I looked at the help for feh and nitrogen and didnt see anything talking about DISPLAY. do tell if you have seen this previously.
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env DISPLAY=:0.1 feh imageNitrogen should have a screen selector on the bottom of the gui. Again this may not apply to your setup.
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