HOWTO: Set Background Wallpaper in Fluxbox?
Flux box isn’t like KDE or Gnome in the sense that there’s a ‘desktop configuration tool’. To change the desktop wallpaper, for example. you’ll have to drop into a terminal window. It’s not hard, just different.
- Get the image you’d like to use as your desktop wallpaper downloaded or otherwise saved somewhere on your sytem
- Open a terminal window and use your favorite text editor to open your ~/.fluxbox/startup file.
- Look for a line that starts with the command fbsetbg. If you see one, edit it to reflect the path to your new background image. If you don’t see such a line, make a new one as such (note: depending on your screen size you may see this as two lines, this should be one line in your startup file:
fbsetbg -f /home/jon/.fluxbox/backgrounds/my_background.jpg
Who said Fluxbox wasn’t friendly?
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3 opinions for HOWTO: Set Background Wallpaper in Fluxbox?
komaton
Sep 27, 2006 at 12:33 pm
if you use feh as background image handler there is another way to set an new wallpaper
open your fluxbox menufile and insert the following lines
[submenu] (Wallpaper)
[wallpapers] (/path/to/your/wallpapers) {feh –bg-scale}
[end]
so you can change your desktop wallpaper in seconds without editing your initscript…
Fluxbox rocks
Mar 23, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I agree with kornation, his way is a lot better…
sg
May 6, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I tried what he said
In the menu, I see all the wallpaper files, but i’m unable to click on any..Well like i can but nothing happens.
Why
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