[SOLVED] problems with feh and awesome wallpaper

fizk-jnk · 2010-09-10 09:15:35

Hello

I am currently trying to use feh to set my wallpaper because if I set it to scale in the theme.lua the picture (which has slightly smaller resolution) looses aspect ratio.

I tried using the default value for in theme.lua and -u feh, but it still kills the aspect ratio of the image... don't know why...

Also if I try adding os.execute("feh ... and so on") to my rc lua the feh window is fullscreen and nothing else is accesible...

So following a guide on this blog I did what it says, namely :

"Edit the variable theme.wallpaper_cmd to contain the string "eval `cat ~/.fehbg`"" (in the theme.lua, in the current theme dir)

But when I restarted my machine the wallpaper is just black.

I did try the command cat ~/fehbg, and the file contains the command for feh to set an image (feh --bg-scale '<image>').

So am I missing something ?

If this is not the way to do it, how should I go about using feh for my wallpaper ?

Last edited by fizk-jnk (2011-01-10 15:11:14)

barto · 2010-09-10 22:32:35

Hello,

fizk-jnk wrote:

if I set it to scale [...] the picture looses aspect ratio.

Actually, ignoring aspect ratio is what scaling means.

Try

feh --bg-center '<image>'

and read the Background setting section in the feh man page.

fizk-jnk · 2010-09-11 07:48:59

Thanks for the reply.
I did read the man for feh.... seems like I missed something along the way, because scale really stretches the pic as well. And you are right sir

Is there any ap that I can use to make the image "fit" ? I mean if the image is smaller just to zoom into it in a way ? Just like the gnome "set desktop" to "zoom" option ?

barto · 2010-09-11 12:17:48

Oh, I understand.
Feh seems not to have the desired function.
I don't know awesome (nor gnome) and don't know any other background setting ap, so I won't be able to provide a "clean" solution. Instead of you I would just work it around.
What about resizing the image to fit your screen's resolution (in my case 1280x1024)?

convert '<image>' -resize 1280x1024 '<newimage>'
feh --bg-center '<newimage>'

Stebalien · 2010-09-11 12:28:37

nitrogen

fizk-jnk · 2010-09-11 15:42:42

(barto) Thanks for the help.
The convert command seems like better than doing it with Gimp...

But I think I will give nitrogen a go first (thanks Stebalien)

And if I have any problems I will post them here

jaydoc · 2012-02-21 06:59:57

hi

not being a necromancer, just to prove that I did do some searching...! Closest answer I found, still not what I wanted though.

how do I use feh to set up the wallpaper awesome...? I tried using "eval `cat ~/.fehbg`"" as theme.wallpaper_cmd in a theme.lua file and also changed rc.lua to replace the default theme, but when I reboot the system, the wallpaper goes back to the theme's default.

thanks

Last edited by jaydoc (2012-02-21 07:10:03)

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#1 2010-09-10 09:15:35

[SOLVED] problems with feh and awesome wallpaper

#2 2010-09-10 22:32:35

Re: [SOLVED] problems with feh and awesome wallpaper

#3 2010-09-11 07:48:59

Re: [SOLVED] problems with feh and awesome wallpaper

#4 2010-09-11 12:17:48

Re: [SOLVED] problems with feh and awesome wallpaper

#5 2010-09-11 12:28:37

Re: [SOLVED] problems with feh and awesome wallpaper

#6 2010-09-11 15:42:42

Re: [SOLVED] problems with feh and awesome wallpaper

#7 2012-02-21 06:59:57

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