Difference between revisions of "Feh"
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| − | '''feh''' is an image viewer but it is mainly used for setting background images on minimalistic desktop setups. To get it to set your background when X starts, put the line <pre> feh --bg-scale /path/to/image </pre> in your .xinitrc. | + | '''feh''' is an image viewer but it is mainly used for setting background images on minimalistic desktop setups. To get it to set your background when X starts, put the following line in your [[.xinitrc]]. |
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| + | feh --bg-scale /path/to/image | ||
| + | </pre> | ||
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| + | =Ackthet's Rotating Background Image Script= | ||
| + | The following script changes your background to a random image in the folder <code>~/.bg</code> every 15 minutes. It should be called in your [[.xinitrc]] so that it is started with X. | ||
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#!/bin/sh | #!/bin/sh | ||
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sleep 15m | sleep 15m | ||
done & | done & | ||
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[[Category:Howtos]] | [[Category:Howtos]] | ||
| − | [[Category:*nix | + | [[Category:Desktop *nix software]] |
[[Category:Scripts]] | [[Category:Scripts]] | ||
Revision as of 21:35, 5 January 2010
feh is an image viewer but it is mainly used for setting background images on minimalistic desktop setups. To get it to set your background when X starts, put the following line in your .xinitrc.
feh --bg-scale /path/to/image
Ackthet's Rotating Background Image Script
The following script changes your background to a random image in the folder ~/.bg every 15 minutes. It should be called in your .xinitrc so that it is started with X.
#!/bin/sh while true; do find $HOME/.bg -type f -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.png' | shuf -n 1 | xargs feh --bg-scale sleep 15m done &
