Hi Martin,

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 02:52:53PM -0700, Martin wrote:
>
> 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.

You should be able to do something like,

widget.Wallpaper(directory=os.path.expanduser("~/some/other/directory"))

> 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()

This won't have the widget show up in your bar, though.

Tycho

> 
> Thank you very much for your feedback.
> 
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