On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 15:24, Petr Osanve Vytovtov <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/15/12 21:21, David Gomes wrote: > > Actually, the -f didn't work. I also tried adding this in the end of my > rc.lua: > > -- Use nitrogen to set the wallpaper > os.execute("nitrogen --set-scaled > ~/.config/awesome/themes/default/background.png") > > But it didn't work, and the background is still non-stretched (and I did > quit and re-open awesome). > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:12 PM, David Gomes <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Well, the -f worked, but so did nitrogen. However, nitrogen also enabled >> transparency on terminals, so I'll probably use nitrogen. >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 14:51, David Gomes <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > I set a new wallpaper on Awesome WM, and this is how it >>> > looks: http://i.imgur.com/V8qts.jpg >>> > >>> > It's not stretched and it doesn't look so good because of that. >>> > >>> > david@myhost:~$ awesome --version >>> > awesome v3.4.11 (Pickapart) >>> > • Build: Feb 14 2012 15:13:02 for x86_64 by gcc version 4.6.2 >>> > (david@myhost) >>> > • D-Bus support: ✔ >>> > david@myhost:~$ >>> > >>> > That is my version of Awesome, and I'm wondering about how I can fix >>> > this >>> > problem, thanks. >>> > >>> > -- >>> > David Gomes >>> >>> As http://www.linuxcertif.com/man/1/awsetbg/en/ says: >>> OPTIONS >>> -f file >>> Set fullscreen wallpaper. >>> >>> awsetbg -f <wallpaper> >>> >>> You can try this on the terminal or on the run command widget, make >>> sure it works, then you can update your set bg variable on rc.lua. >>> >>> -- >>> Claudio Roberto França Pereira >> >> >> >> >> -- >> David Gomes > > > > > -- > David Gomes > > Write in ~/.xinitrc next line (without the quotes, before the line "exec > awesome"): "feh --bg-scale /path/to/image &". > This should help solve the problem.
First try each command on a separate terminal to see how they work, they you pass to finding out why they don't work on your rc.lua. Probably some other background setting command is running after the new one. -- Claudio Roberto França Pereira -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
