Hi!
I'm somewhat new to Linux. I have only been using it for a couple of weeks, and I have slowly been solving problems and tweaking my installation. I am currently on Debian 12, using lightdm with slick-greeter.
Currently I have been trying to set a wallpaper on startup, which would have be easy if I had kept xfce. However I switched to dwm. I understand how to apply a wallpaper to my desktop background, but I have had much difficulty having it persist on reboot. I first tried to place a pywal or feh command into my .xinitrc file that would apply a wallpaper, however this did not work. I think that this is because I do not start dwm through xinitrc, but through /usr/share/xsessions by using a .desktop file for it, but i'm not sure. I also tried bash scripting to run the command, crontab, variety, changing lightdm's config file, as well as using the rc.local script to start the command I need to run at boot in order to apply the wallpaper. These attempts did not work either, most likely because I did something wrong.
I also messed around with the dwm autostart patch, but I honestly don't know how to configure it.
So as of right now i'm kinda at a loss. I've been trying to troubleshoot this for a week straight with no luck. Would somebody have an idea as to what I should do to apply a wallpaper on startup? Thanks for your time.
I'm somewhat new to Linux. I have only been using it for a couple of weeks, and I have slowly been solving problems and tweaking my installation. I am currently on Debian 12, using lightdm with slick-greeter.
Currently I have been trying to set a wallpaper on startup, which would have be easy if I had kept xfce. However I switched to dwm. I understand how to apply a wallpaper to my desktop background, but I have had much difficulty having it persist on reboot. I first tried to place a pywal or feh command into my .xinitrc file that would apply a wallpaper, however this did not work. I think that this is because I do not start dwm through xinitrc, but through /usr/share/xsessions by using a .desktop file for it, but i'm not sure. I also tried bash scripting to run the command, crontab, variety, changing lightdm's config file, as well as using the rc.local script to start the command I need to run at boot in order to apply the wallpaper. These attempts did not work either, most likely because I did something wrong.
I also messed around with the dwm autostart patch, but I honestly don't know how to configure it.
So as of right now i'm kinda at a loss. I've been trying to troubleshoot this for a week straight with no luck. Would somebody have an idea as to what I should do to apply a wallpaper on startup? Thanks for your time.
Statistics: Posted by TheInquisitor — 2024-04-17 06:25 — Replies 1 — Views 64