The explanation that my graphics driver may send garbage to the screen
seems likely. I hope other users wont have that issue, it makes Qtile seem
quite terrible initially.
All your suggestions worked. Adding the following to my config.py could
solve the problem
import subprocess
subprocess.call(['display',
'-window', 'root',
'/home/martin/Pictures/picture.jpg'])
I could also use the following for a black background
import subprocess
subprocess.call(['xsetroot',
# '-cursor_name', 'left_prt',
# '-solid', '#000000'])
I also decided to install the development version of qtile (I think, I get
0.9.1 from qtile --version, and I have run git checkout development in my
source folder) and tried using the wallpaper widget in the bar:
screens = [
Screen(
bottom=bar.Bar(
[
widget.GroupBox(),
...
widget.Wallpaper(),
],
...
]
Wallpaper requires a default location for pictures
mkdir ~/Pictures/wallpapers
I guess I can set any folder to store the wallpapers, but I actually don't
know how to pass arguments to the widget :( I cant guess it from the source.
I could probably learn that by looking at some of the example configs.
I also tried to do some edits to the config and using the xephyr test
script to see if I could move the Wallpaper() widget away from the bottom
bar (where it was annoying). It appears to be possible
#...anyplace in config.py
widget.Wallpaper()
Thank you very much for your feedback.
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