How to change desktop wallpaper from terminal

wallpaperxmonad

I want to change the wallpaper of xmonad from the command line.

How can I do this?

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You can use feh:

feh --bg-scale /path/to/wallpaper

You can also set up bash scripts to change wallpaper to random one every X minutes(I use it with feh), get random wallpaper on each boot, etc. The Arch wiki explains it nicely.

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Try this. Make a file called /usr/share/images/desktop-base/lockscreen.xml, somewhat like this:

<background>
  <static>
    <duration>8640000.0</duration>
    <file>
      <size width="1920" height="1080">/path/to/wallpaper.jpg</size>
    </file>
  </static>
</background>

Then link the file like so: ln -sfv /usr/share/images/desktop-base/lockscreen.xml /etc/alternatives/desktop-background.xml

As root, run this: /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart or just reboot. That should do it. That was the process in older versions of Gnome, so as long as it hasn't changed, you should be good to go.

XMonad doesn’t clear screen on change of workspace

The answer was to simply set a wallpaper. I did this with feh: https://wiki.debian.org/Openbox#Setting_your_background_image_with_feh

Thanks to geekosaur on #xmonad on freenode!

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