Xorg recurring background

[Michael Gmelin]

> On 3. May 2020, at 19:12, Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Ok I did, "feh --bg-center Downloads/wallpaper1.jpg" in .xinitrc 
> What does PATH and $HOME mean? 
> 

PATH is the environment variable where your shell finds programs (e.g. feh is in /usr/local/bin). You can show your environment by calling “env”.

$HOME is a variable containing your user’s home directory. So in your example I would suggest to put:

/usr/local/bin/feh --bg-center $HOME/Downloads/wallpaper1.jpg

in there.

> I copied my .xinitrc to .xsession. Can you tell me why I'm supposed to do this? 

You would do this if you use a graphical login session manager like xdm or gdm. If you start X using “startx”, ~/.xinitrc is enough (~ is an alias for your home directory)

If this doesn’t work, please share some details of your setup, especially:
- how do you start X
- which window manager are you using
- content of your ~/.xinitrc (and or ~/.xsession) file


> 
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You probably can disable that somewhere in that app ;)

> 
> From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd at grem.de>
> Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2020 11:05:14 AM
> To: Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley at hotmail.com>
> Cc: freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org <freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: Xorg recurring background
>  
> Anything you run to set the background while X is running will also work from within those files (X is already started when they‘re executed). You have to make sure that the programs you call are found in PATH (and specify the correct path to any files you pass as parameters, like images - you can use $HOME in ~/.xinitrc)
> 
>>> On 3. May 2020, at 18:50, Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>> So would " feh --bg-center " in .xinitrc or .xsession work?
>> 
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>> From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd at grem.de>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2020 10:11:29 AM
>> To: Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley at hotmail.com>
>> Cc: freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org <freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org>
>> Subject: Re: Xorg recurring background
>>  
>> Oh, so that’s what you meant with “recurring”? Like it permanently?
>> 
>> You can set these kind of things in ~/.xinitrc
>> (or if you use a session manager, ~/.xsession).
>> 
>> Just add the command in there before starting your window manager,
>> 
>> e.g.
>> 
>>     xmodmap ...
>>     xsetroot ...
>>     xterm&
>>     twm
>> 
>>> On 3. May 2020, at 17:58, Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> There are no options for setting background from file, or set permanently. I'm using feh, but it doesn't give option for permanent set. The wallpaper has to be set everytime the machine is turned off and on.
>>> 
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>>> From: owner-freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org <owner-freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org> on behalf of Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley at hotmail.com>
>>> Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2020 9:50:21 AM
>>> To: Michael Gmelin <freebsd at grem.de>
>>> Cc: freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org <freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org>
>>> Subject: Re: Xorg recurring background
>>>  
>>> Got it, thanks.
>>> 
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>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd at grem.de>
>>> Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2020 9:49:38 AM
>>> To: Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley at hotmail.com>
>>> Cc: freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org <freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org>
>>> Subject: Re: Xorg recurring background
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 3. May 2020, at 17:42, Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello, could I gain assistance in setting up a recurring background in xorg?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> See xsetroot(1)
>>> 
>>> https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xsetroot.1.html
>>> 
>>> 
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