diff --git a/modules/feh/README.md b/modules/feh/README.md
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+++ b/modules/feh/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# feh
+
+The wallpaper as a module (novox/hq ADR 0208, research 026/05).
+
+- Installs `feh` and requires `x11-display` on its own machine. It holds no seat: a wallpaper is not a
+  role anything else calls.
+- **Carries the wallpaper itself.** `wallpaper/default.jpg` is built into an archive of the module
+  (ADR 0205) and unpacked into `~/.local/share/feh/wallpapers/`, which the module owns.
+- Owns `~/.fehbg`, which sets that image, filled, on every monitor, without rewriting itself
+  (`--no-fehbg`).
+- Runs `~/.fehbg` once per session, from the session's start (the `xinitrc` slot `normal`).
+- Binds `$mod+Shift+b` to the same file, as its own i3 drop-in (`50-feh.conf`): the declared wallpaper
+  back, after a monitor change.
+
+## Tools
+
+| tool | does |
+|---|---|
+| `feh_set` | set images (one for all monitors, or one each) in a mode: fill, center, max, scale, tile. For this session; the declared wallpaper returns at the next login |
+| `feh_current` | the declared wallpaper (from `~/.fehbg`) and the one `feh_set` put up in this session |
+
+`feh_set` never writes `~/.fehbg`. A wallpaper that should stay is a change to this module, or a
+setting once issue 168 closes, not a file the next push would overwrite.
+
+## What it improves on what was found
+
+- **The wallpaper no longer lives in the predecessor's tree.** `~/.fehbg` pointed into a directory
+  of the retired predecessor's. Deleting that directory would have left the desktop black, silently.
+- **One image file, the same on both workstations.** The image was byte-identical on both. It is now
+  the module's own.
+
+## What it leaves as found
+
+- The predecessor's wallpaper directory. It is part of the predecessor's tree, which goes as a whole.
+
+## Migration (ADR 0182)
+
+- The first push keeps the found `~/.fehbg` once, then writes the module's.
+- Once the `xorg` module writes the session's start, delete the `~/.fehbg &` line from your own part
+  of `~/.xinitrc`.
+- The image's origin is the predecessor's desktop module. Check that it may be redistributed before
+  this catalogue is published anywhere public.
+
+## Blockers
+
+- `x11-display` and the `xinitrc` slot are ADR 0208's. Until the controller knows them, `mctl` reads
+  them as unknown.
diff --git a/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/args.go b/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/args.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9b5dfcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/args.go
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+// Reading a tool's arguments: JSON numbers arrive as float64, and a missing argument is its default.
+// The same in every desktop module that carries it.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"math"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// text is a string argument, trimmed; required says an empty one is refused.
+func text(args map[string]any, key string, required bool) (string, error) {
+	v, present := args[key]
+	if !present || v == nil {
+		if required {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("%s is required", key)
+		}
+		return "", nil
+	}
+	s, ok := v.(string)
+	if !ok {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s is a string, not %T", key, v)
+	}
+	s = strings.TrimSpace(s)
+	if s == "" && required {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s is required", key)
+	}
+	return s, nil
+}
+
+// whole is a whole-number argument within [least, most], or def when absent.
+func whole(args map[string]any, key string, def, least, most int) (int, error) {
+	v, present := args[key]
+	if !present || v == nil {
+		return def, nil
+	}
+	f, ok := v.(float64)
+	if !ok {
+		if i, isInt := v.(int); isInt {
+			f = float64(i)
+		} else {
+			return 0, fmt.Errorf("%s is a number, not %T", key, v)
+		}
+	}
+	if f != math.Trunc(f) {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("%s is a whole number, not %v", key, f)
+	}
+	n := int(f)
+	if n < least || n > most {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("%s is %d; it is between %d and %d", key, n, least, most)
+	}
+	return n, nil
+}
+
+// flag is a boolean argument, or def when absent.
+func flag(args map[string]any, key string, def bool) (bool, error) {
+	v, present := args[key]
+	if !present || v == nil {
+		return def, nil
+	}
+	b, ok := v.(bool)
+	if !ok {
+		return false, fmt.Errorf("%s is true or false, not %T", key, v)
+	}
+	return b, nil
+}
+
+// texts is a list-of-strings argument.
+func texts(args map[string]any, key string) ([]string, error) {
+	v, present := args[key]
+	if !present || v == nil {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	list, ok := v.([]any)
+	if !ok {
+		if ss, isStrings := v.([]string); isStrings {
+			return ss, nil
+		}
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s is a list of strings, not %T", key, v)
+	}
+	out := make([]string, 0, len(list))
+	for i, item := range list {
+		s, ok := item.(string)
+		if !ok {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s[%d] is a string, not %T", key, i, item)
+		}
+		out = append(out, s)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// seconds is a timeout argument in seconds, defaulted and bounded below the runtime's call limit.
+func seconds(args map[string]any, key string, def, most int) (time.Duration, error) {
+	n, err := whole(args, key, def, 1, most)
+	return time.Duration(n) * time.Second, err
+}
diff --git a/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/main.go b/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/main.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3a42f8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/main.go
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+// feh's Go tools bundle (novox/hq ADR 0188, ADR 0193, ADR 0208): the wallpaper's tools, served by the
+// node's runtime as the operator account.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	if err := stdio.Serve("", tools()); err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+}
+
+func tools() []stdio.Tool {
+	return []stdio.Tool{
+		{
+			Name: "feh_set",
+			Description: "Set the wallpaper in the operator's session: one image for every monitor, or one per " +
+				"monitor in the X screen order, filled, centred, scaled to fit, stretched or tiled. Lasts until the " +
+				"next session start, when the declared wallpaper returns; the declared one is untouched.",
+			Input: map[string]any{
+				"type": "object",
+				"properties": map[string]any{
+					"images": map[string]any{"type": "array", "items": map[string]any{"type": "string"}, "description": "image files on this machine, absolute or under the account's home; one per monitor, or one for all"},
+					"mode":   map[string]any{"type": "string", "enum": modes, "description": "default fill"},
+				},
+				"required": []string{"images"},
+			},
+			Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
+				images, err := texts(args, "images")
+				if err != nil {
+					return nil, err
+				}
+				mode, err := text(args, "mode", false)
+				if err != nil {
+					return nil, err
+				}
+				return Set(images, mode)
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			Name: "feh_current",
+			Description: "The wallpaper: the declared one the session start sets (images and mode, read from " +
+				"~/.fehbg), and the one feh_set put up in this session, if any.",
+			Run: func(map[string]any) (any, error) { return Current() },
+		},
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/manifest_helpers_test.go b/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/manifest_helpers_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4fb76d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/manifest_helpers_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// The module's manifest, read the way the catalogue reads it, for the manifest tests. The same in
+// every desktop module that carries it.
+
+type manifest struct {
+	Module       string           `json:"module"`
+	Version      string           `json:"version"`
+	Capabilities []string         `json:"capabilities"`
+	Requires     []string         `json:"requires"`
+	Claims       []claim          `json:"claims"`
+	Seats        []any            `json:"seats"`
+	Tools        []string         `json:"tools"`
+	Environment  *environment     `json:"environment"`
+	Shell        []shellCode      `json:"shell"`
+	Resources    []map[string]any `json:"resources"`
+	Build        struct {
+		Artifacts []map[string]any `json:"artifacts"`
+	} `json:"build"`
+}
+
+type claim struct {
+	Name   string   `json:"name"`
+	Scope  string   `json:"scope"`
+	Serves []string `json:"serves"`
+}
+
+type environment struct {
+	Variables map[string]string `json:"variables"`
+	Path      []map[string]any  `json:"path"`
+}
+
+type shellCode struct {
+	For  string `json:"for"`
+	Slot string `json:"slot"`
+	Code string `json:"code"`
+}
+
+func readManifest(t *testing.T) manifest {
+	t.Helper()
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join("..", "..", "module.json"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	dec := json.NewDecoder(strings.NewReader(string(raw)))
+	dec.DisallowUnknownFields()
+	var m manifest
+	if err := dec.Decode(&m); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("module.json: %v", err)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+func (m manifest) resource(t *testing.T, id string) map[string]any {
+	t.Helper()
+	for _, r := range m.Resources {
+		if r["id"] == id {
+			return r
+		}
+	}
+	t.Fatalf("no resource %q", id)
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (m manifest) packages() (present, absent []string) {
+	for _, r := range m.Resources {
+		if r["type"] == "package" {
+			if r["absent"] == true {
+				absent = append(absent, r["package"].(string))
+			} else {
+				present = append(present, r["package"].(string))
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return present, absent
+}
+
+// sameAsSource checks that a file resource's content is byte for byte the module's source file, so
+// the readable file in the repository is what the machine gets.
+func (m manifest) sameAsSource(t *testing.T, id, source string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	want, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join("..", "..", source))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	r := m.resource(t, id)
+	if r["type"] != "file" {
+		t.Fatalf("%s is a %v, not a file", id, r["type"])
+	}
+	if got, _ := r["content"].(string); got != string(want) {
+		t.Fatalf("resource %s's content is not %s: edit the source and copy it into module.json", id, source)
+	}
+	if r["owner"] != "${machine:account}" && !strings.HasPrefix(r["path"].(string), "/etc/") {
+		t.Fatalf("%s under the home is the account's", id)
+	}
+}
+
+// checkTheToolsAgree checks that the manifest lists the module's own tools exactly, that the bundle
+// serves each seat verb the claims promise as <seat>.<verb>, and that the Go bundle is declared.
+func checkTheToolsAgree(t *testing.T, m manifest) {
+	t.Helper()
+	own, seat := map[string]bool{}, map[string]bool{}
+	for _, tool := range tools() {
+		if strings.Contains(tool.Name, ".") {
+			seat[tool.Name] = true
+		} else {
+			own[tool.Name] = true
+		}
+		if strings.TrimSpace(tool.Description) == "" {
+			t.Errorf("%s has no description", tool.Name)
+		}
+	}
+	listed := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, name := range m.Tools {
+		listed[name] = true
+		if !own[name] {
+			t.Errorf("module.json lists %s, which the bundle does not serve", name)
+		}
+	}
+	for name := range own {
+		if !listed[name] {
+			t.Errorf("the bundle serves %s, which module.json does not list", name)
+		}
+		if !strings.HasPrefix(name, strings.ReplaceAll(m.Module, "-", "_")+"_") {
+			t.Errorf("%s is not prefixed with the module's name", name)
+		}
+	}
+	promised := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, c := range m.Claims {
+		for _, verb := range c.Serves {
+			promised[c.Name+"."+verb] = true
+			if !seat[c.Name+"."+verb] {
+				t.Errorf("the claim on %s promises %s, which the bundle does not serve", c.Name, verb)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	for name := range seat {
+		if !promised[name] {
+			t.Errorf("the bundle serves %s, which no claim promises", name)
+		}
+	}
+	var bundle map[string]any
+	for _, a := range m.Build.Artifacts {
+		if a["kind"] == "bundle" {
+			bundle = a
+		}
+	}
+	if bundle == nil || bundle["language"] != "go" || bundle["system"] != "arch" ||
+		bundle["from"] != "cmd/"+m.Module+"-tools" || bundle["binary"] != m.Module+"-tools" {
+		t.Errorf("the Go tools bundle: %v", bundle)
+	}
+}
+
+// checkNoSecretsOrInstallationNames refuses what a catalogue manifest must never carry.
+func checkNoSecretsOrInstallationNames(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Helper()
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join("..", "..", "module.json"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	s := strings.ToLower(string(raw))
+	for _, never := range []string{"/home/", "jochen", "g14", "shanks", "novox.be", "api_key", ".hal/", "greenclip daemon"} {
+		if strings.Contains(s, never) {
+			t.Errorf("module.json names %q", never)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/manifest_test.go b/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/manifest_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dbdd9ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/manifest_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"reflect"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// feh's shape (novox/hq ADR 0208): no seat; it requires the X display on its own machine, carries
+// the wallpaper as its own archive (ADR 0205), owns ~/.fehbg pointing at it, and sets it once from
+// the session's start.
+
+func TestItRequiresTheXDisplayAndClaimsNothing(t *testing.T) {
+	m := readManifest(t)
+	if m.Module != "feh" || m.Seats != nil || m.Claims != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("module %q, seats %v, claims %v", m.Module, m.Seats, m.Claims)
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Requires, []string{"x11-display"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("requires: %v", m.Requires)
+	}
+	if present, absent := m.packages(); !reflect.DeepEqual(present, []string{"feh"}) || absent != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("packages: %v, absent %v", present, absent)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTheWallpaperIsTheModulesOwnArchive(t *testing.T) {
+	m := readManifest(t)
+	a := m.resource(t, "wallpapers")
+	if a["type"] != "archive" || a["artifact"] != "wallpapers" || a["path"] != "${machine:account-home}/.local/share/feh/wallpapers" || a["owner"] != "${machine:account}" {
+		t.Fatalf("%v", a)
+	}
+	found := false
+	for _, art := range m.Build.Artifacts {
+		if art["name"] == "wallpapers" && art["kind"] == "archive" && art["from"] == "wallpaper" {
+			found = true
+		}
+	}
+	if !found {
+		t.Fatal("no archive artifact built from wallpaper/")
+	}
+	info, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join("..", "..", "wallpaper", "default.jpg"))
+	if err != nil || info.Size() == 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("the image: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFehbgIsOwnedAndTheSessionStartRunsItOnce(t *testing.T) {
+	m := readManifest(t)
+	m.sameAsSource(t, "fehbg", "files/fehbg")
+	f := m.resource(t, "fehbg")
+	if f["path"] != "${machine:account-home}/.fehbg" || f["mode"] != "0755" {
+		t.Fatalf("%v", f)
+	}
+	if c := f["content"].(string); !strings.Contains(c, "$HOME/.local/share/feh/wallpapers/default.jpg") || strings.Contains(c, ".hal") {
+		t.Fatalf("%s", c)
+	}
+	if len(m.Shell) != 1 || m.Shell[0].For != "xinitrc" || m.Shell[0].Slot != "normal" || strings.Count(m.Shell[0].Code, `"$HOME/.fehbg"`) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("%+v", m.Shell)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTheKeyThatRestoresTheWallpaperIsAnI3DropIn(t *testing.T) {
+	m := readManifest(t)
+	m.sameAsSource(t, "i3-bindings", "files/i3/50-feh.conf")
+	if p := m.resource(t, "i3-bindings")["path"]; p != "${machine:account-home}/.config/i3/config.d/50-feh.conf" {
+		t.Fatalf("path: %v", p)
+	}
+	if c := m.resource(t, "i3-bindings")["content"].(string); !strings.Contains(c, "bindsym $mod+Shift+b exec --no-startup-id ~/.fehbg\n") {
+		t.Fatalf("%s", c)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTheToolsAgreeWithTheManifest(t *testing.T) {
+	m := readManifest(t)
+	checkTheToolsAgree(t, m)
+	checkNoSecretsOrInstallationNames(t)
+}
diff --git a/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/session.go b/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/session.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dc21774
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/session.go
@@ -0,0 +1,423 @@
+// The operator's graphical session, as a tool the node's runtime runs finds it (novox/hq ADR 0208).
+//
+// The runtime is a system service running as the operator account (ADR 0175): it has the account's
+// uid and none of the session's environment — no DISPLAY, no XAUTHORITY, no session bus. A tool that
+// draws on the screen or talks to the desktop's D-Bus must find them. It reads them from a process of
+// the account that is part of the session (the window manager first), the same thing `loginctl` and
+// a person's own shell would point at, and says where it found them.
+//
+// Long-lived programs a tool starts go to the account's own service manager through `systemd-run
+// --user`, never as children of the tool: the runtime's unit is a cgroup the service manager empties
+// whenever the runtime restarts, and a compositor or a clipboard owner started from inside it would
+// die with it.
+//
+// This file is the same in every desktop module that carries it; it moves into the Go SDK once a
+// second consumer outside the desktop wants it.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"sort"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"syscall"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// Where the session is looked for. Variables so a test can point them at a fake tree.
+var (
+	procRoot   = "/proc"
+	runUserDir = "/run/user"
+	x11Sockets = "/tmp/.X11-unix"
+)
+
+// sessionHolders are the processes whose environment is the session's, best first: the window
+// manager is the session, the rest are its children. Anything else carrying DISPLAY ranks after them.
+var sessionHolders = []string{"i3", "sway", "i3bar", "picom", "xss-lock", "dunst", "clipmenud", "xterm"}
+
+// sessionKeys are the variables a session carries that a tool hands on to what it runs.
+var sessionKeys = []string{"DISPLAY", "XAUTHORITY", "WAYLAND_DISPLAY", "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS",
+	"XDG_RUNTIME_DIR", "XDG_SESSION_ID", "I3SOCK"}
+
+// Session is what a tool needs to reach the operator's desktop.
+type Session struct {
+	UID        int    `json:"uid"`
+	Display    string `json:"display,omitempty"`
+	XAuthority string `json:"xauthority,omitempty"`
+	Wayland    string `json:"wayland_display,omitempty"`
+	Bus        string `json:"bus,omitempty"`
+	RuntimeDir string `json:"runtime_dir,omitempty"`
+	SessionID  string `json:"session_id,omitempty"`
+	I3Sock     string `json:"i3sock,omitempty"`
+	// From says where the values were found: the tool's own environment, a process, or the socket.
+	From string `json:"from"`
+}
+
+// ErrNoSession is answered by a tool that needs the desktop when nobody is logged in to it.
+var ErrNoSession = errors.New("no graphical session")
+
+// ErrTimedOut is what run answers for a command ended because it ran past its time.
+var ErrTimedOut = errors.New("timed out")
+
+// ErrNoBus is answered by a tool that needs the session bus when the account has none.
+var ErrNoBus = errors.New("no session bus")
+
+// operatorHome is the account's home: what the runtime was told, else the process's own.
+func operatorHome() string {
+	if h := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MESH_OPERATOR_HOME")); h != "" {
+		return h
+	}
+	h, _ := os.UserHomeDir()
+	return h
+}
+
+// findSession finds the graphical session of the account this tool runs as, or answers
+// ErrNoSession with what it looked at.
+func findSession() (Session, error) {
+	s := findEnvironment()
+	if s.Display == "" && s.Wayland == "" {
+		return s, fmt.Errorf("%w for uid %d on this machine: no process of the account carries DISPLAY "+
+			"or WAYLAND_DISPLAY, and no X server socket in %s has an authority file to go with it. "+
+			"Is anyone logged in to the desktop?", ErrNoSession, s.UID, x11Sockets)
+	}
+	return s, nil
+}
+
+// findBus finds the account's session bus, which a logged-in account has whether or not a desktop
+// is running.
+func findBus() (Session, error) {
+	s := findEnvironment()
+	if s.Bus == "" {
+		return s, fmt.Errorf("%w for uid %d: DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is not set and %s does not exist "+
+			"(the account is not logged in)", ErrNoBus, s.UID, filepath.Join(runUserDir, strconv.Itoa(s.UID), "bus"))
+	}
+	return s, nil
+}
+
+func findEnvironment() Session {
+	uid := os.Getuid()
+	s := Session{UID: uid}
+	own := map[string]string{}
+	for _, k := range sessionKeys {
+		own[k] = os.Getenv(k)
+	}
+	if own["DISPLAY"] != "" || own["WAYLAND_DISPLAY"] != "" {
+		s.fill(own)
+		s.From = "the tool's own environment"
+	} else if pid, comm, env, ok := sessionProcess(uid); ok {
+		s.fill(env)
+		s.From = fmt.Sprintf("process %s (pid %d)", comm, pid)
+	} else if display, ok := lonelyX11Socket(); ok {
+		if a := filepath.Join(operatorHome(), ".Xauthority"); exists(a) {
+			s.Display, s.XAuthority = display, a
+			s.From = "the X server socket and the account's ~/.Xauthority"
+		}
+		s.fill(own)
+	} else {
+		s.fill(own)
+		s.From = "nothing: no session found"
+	}
+	// The bus and the runtime directory are the account's, whether or not the process named them.
+	runtime := filepath.Join(runUserDir, strconv.Itoa(uid))
+	if s.RuntimeDir == "" && exists(runtime) {
+		s.RuntimeDir = runtime
+	}
+	if s.Bus == "" && s.RuntimeDir != "" && exists(filepath.Join(s.RuntimeDir, "bus")) {
+		s.Bus = "unix:path=" + filepath.Join(s.RuntimeDir, "bus")
+	}
+	return s
+}
+
+func (s *Session) fill(env map[string]string) {
+	set := func(dst *string, key string) {
+		if *dst == "" {
+			*dst = env[key]
+		}
+	}
+	set(&s.Display, "DISPLAY")
+	set(&s.XAuthority, "XAUTHORITY")
+	set(&s.Wayland, "WAYLAND_DISPLAY")
+	set(&s.Bus, "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS")
+	set(&s.RuntimeDir, "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR")
+	set(&s.SessionID, "XDG_SESSION_ID")
+	set(&s.I3Sock, "I3SOCK")
+}
+
+// sessionProcess is the best process of this uid whose environment names a display.
+func sessionProcess(uid int) (int, string, map[string]string, bool) {
+	entries, err := os.ReadDir(procRoot)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, "", nil, false
+	}
+	type candidate struct {
+		pid  int
+		comm string
+		env  map[string]string
+		rank int
+	}
+	var found []candidate
+	for _, e := range entries {
+		pid, err := strconv.Atoi(e.Name())
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		dir := filepath.Join(procRoot, e.Name())
+		if owner, ok := ownerOf(dir); !ok || owner != uid {
+			continue
+		}
+		raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, "environ"))
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		env := parseEnviron(raw)
+		if env["DISPLAY"] == "" && env["WAYLAND_DISPLAY"] == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		comm := readTrimmed(filepath.Join(dir, "comm"))
+		rank := len(sessionHolders)
+		for i, h := range sessionHolders {
+			if h == comm {
+				rank = i
+				break
+			}
+		}
+		found = append(found, candidate{pid, comm, env, rank})
+	}
+	if len(found) == 0 {
+		return 0, "", nil, false
+	}
+	sort.Slice(found, func(i, j int) bool {
+		if found[i].rank != found[j].rank {
+			return found[i].rank < found[j].rank
+		}
+		return found[i].pid > found[j].pid // the newer of two equals
+	})
+	best := found[0]
+	return best.pid, best.comm, best.env, true
+}
+
+func parseEnviron(raw []byte) map[string]string {
+	env := map[string]string{}
+	for _, kv := range bytes.Split(raw, []byte{0}) {
+		if i := bytes.IndexByte(kv, '='); i > 0 {
+			env[string(kv[:i])] = string(kv[i+1:])
+		}
+	}
+	return env
+}
+
+func ownerOf(path string) (int, bool) {
+	info, err := os.Stat(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, false
+	}
+	st, ok := info.Sys().(*syscall.Stat_t)
+	if !ok {
+		return 0, false
+	}
+	return int(st.Uid), true
+}
+
+// lonelyX11Socket is the display of the one X server socket there is, when there is exactly one.
+func lonelyX11Socket() (string, bool) {
+	entries, err := os.ReadDir(x11Sockets)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	var displays []string
+	for _, e := range entries {
+		if n := strings.TrimPrefix(e.Name(), "X"); n != e.Name() {
+			if _, err := strconv.Atoi(n); err == nil {
+				displays = append(displays, ":"+n)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if len(displays) != 1 {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	return displays[0], true
+}
+
+func readTrimmed(path string) string {
+	b, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+	return strings.TrimSpace(string(b))
+}
+
+func exists(path string) bool {
+	_, err := os.Stat(path)
+	return err == nil
+}
+
+// Env is this process's environment with the session's variables in place of its own.
+func (s Session) Env() []string {
+	drop := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, k := range sessionKeys {
+		drop[k] = true
+	}
+	var env []string
+	for _, kv := range os.Environ() {
+		if i := strings.IndexByte(kv, '='); i > 0 && drop[kv[:i]] {
+			continue
+		}
+		env = append(env, kv)
+	}
+	add := func(k, v string) {
+		if v != "" {
+			env = append(env, k+"="+v)
+		}
+	}
+	add("DISPLAY", s.Display)
+	add("XAUTHORITY", s.XAuthority)
+	add("WAYLAND_DISPLAY", s.Wayland)
+	add("DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS", s.Bus)
+	add("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR", s.RuntimeDir)
+	add("XDG_SESSION_ID", s.SessionID)
+	add("I3SOCK", s.I3Sock)
+	return env
+}
+
+// mostOutput bounds what a command may answer with, per stream.
+const mostOutput = 256 << 10
+
+// Result is what a command did.
+type Result struct {
+	Stdout    string `json:"stdout"`
+	Stderr    string `json:"stderr,omitempty"`
+	Code      int    `json:"code"`
+	Truncated bool   `json:"truncated,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// run runs a command in the session's environment, its input given, ended with everything it
+// started after timeout. A command that is not installed is an error naming it; one that exits
+// non-zero is a Result with its code, for the caller to judge.
+func (s Session) run(timeout time.Duration, stdin string, name string, args ...string) (Result, error) {
+	path, err := exec.LookPath(name)
+	if err != nil {
+		return Result{}, fmt.Errorf("%s is not installed on this machine", name)
+	}
+	cmd := exec.Command(path, args...)
+	cmd.Env = s.Env()
+	if home := operatorHome(); exists(home) {
+		cmd.Dir = home
+	}
+	if stdin != "" {
+		cmd.Stdin = strings.NewReader(stdin)
+	}
+	var out, errOut capped
+	cmd.Stdout, cmd.Stderr = &out, &errOut
+	cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{Setpgid: true}
+	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
+		return Result{}, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", name, err)
+	}
+	done := make(chan error, 1)
+	go func() { done <- cmd.Wait() }()
+	select {
+	case err = <-done:
+	case <-time.After(timeout):
+		_ = syscall.Kill(-cmd.Process.Pid, syscall.SIGKILL)
+		<-done
+		return Result{Stdout: out.String(), Stderr: errOut.String()},
+			fmt.Errorf("%s did not finish within %s and was ended: %w", name, timeout, ErrTimedOut)
+	}
+	r := Result{Stdout: out.String(), Stderr: errOut.String(), Truncated: out.cut || errOut.cut}
+	var exit *exec.ExitError
+	if errors.As(err, &exit) {
+		r.Code = exit.ExitCode()
+	} else if err != nil {
+		return r, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", name, err)
+	}
+	return r, nil
+}
+
+// detach starts a long-lived program under the account's own service manager, as a transient unit
+// that carries the session's display, so it outlives the runtime that asked for it. A unit already
+// running under the same name is stopped first, so a fixed name means "at most one".
+func (s Session) detach(unit string, args ...string) error {
+	if s.RuntimeDir == "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: the account's runtime directory is missing, so its service manager "+
+			"cannot be reached", ErrNoBus)
+	}
+	_, _ = s.run(5*time.Second, "", "systemctl", "--user", "stop", unit+".service")
+	call := []string{"--user", "--collect", "--quiet", "--unit=" + unit}
+	for _, kv := range [][2]string{{"DISPLAY", s.Display}, {"XAUTHORITY", s.XAuthority},
+		{"WAYLAND_DISPLAY", s.Wayland}, {"XDG_SESSION_ID", s.SessionID}, {"I3SOCK", s.I3Sock}} {
+		if kv[1] != "" {
+			call = append(call, "--setenv="+kv[0]+"="+kv[1])
+		}
+	}
+	call = append(call, "--")
+	call = append(call, args...)
+	r, err := s.run(10*time.Second, "", "systemd-run", call...)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if r.Code != 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("systemd-run %s: %s", unit, strings.TrimSpace(r.Stderr))
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// uniqueUnit is a transient unit name that will not collide with an earlier one.
+func uniqueUnit(prefix string) string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%s-%d", prefix, time.Now().UnixNano())
+}
+
+type capped struct {
+	bytes.Buffer
+	cut bool
+}
+
+func (c *capped) Write(p []byte) (int, error) {
+	if room := mostOutput - c.Len(); room < len(p) {
+		if room > 0 {
+			c.Buffer.Write(p[:room])
+		}
+		c.cut = true
+		return len(p), nil
+	}
+	return c.Buffer.Write(p)
+}
+
+// processesOf are the pids of this uid's processes whose command name is comm, oldest first.
+func processesOf(comm string) []int {
+	entries, err := os.ReadDir(procRoot)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	uid := os.Getuid()
+	var pids []int
+	for _, e := range entries {
+		pid, err := strconv.Atoi(e.Name())
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		dir := filepath.Join(procRoot, e.Name())
+		if owner, ok := ownerOf(dir); !ok || owner != uid {
+			continue
+		}
+		if readTrimmed(filepath.Join(dir, "comm")) == comm {
+			pids = append(pids, pid)
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Ints(pids)
+	return pids
+}
+
+// signalAll sends sig to every process of this uid named comm, and answers the pids it reached.
+func signalAll(comm string, sig syscall.Signal) []int {
+	var reached []int
+	for _, pid := range processesOf(comm) {
+		if syscall.Kill(pid, sig) == nil {
+			reached = append(reached, pid)
+		}
+	}
+	return reached
+}
diff --git a/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/session_test.go b/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/session_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..800cc6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/session_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// fakeMachine points the session finder at a temporary /proc, /run/user and X socket directory, with
+// none of the test process's own session variables, and gives back the root.
+func fakeMachine(t *testing.T) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	procRoot, runUserDir, x11Sockets = filepath.Join(root, "proc"), filepath.Join(root, "run-user"), filepath.Join(root, "x11")
+	for _, d := range []string{procRoot, runUserDir, x11Sockets} {
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(d, 0o755); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, k := range sessionKeys {
+		t.Setenv(k, "")
+	}
+	t.Setenv("MESH_OPERATOR_HOME", filepath.Join(root, "home"))
+	t.Cleanup(func() { procRoot, runUserDir, x11Sockets = "/proc", "/run/user", "/tmp/.X11-unix" })
+	return root
+}
+
+func fakeProcess(t *testing.T, pid int, comm string, env ...string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	dir := filepath.Join(procRoot, strconv.Itoa(pid))
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(dir, 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "comm"), []byte(comm+"\n"), 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "environ"), []byte(strings.Join(env, "\x00")+"\x00"), 0o600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTheSessionIsReadFromTheWindowManagerBeforeAnyOtherProcess(t *testing.T) {
+	fakeMachine(t)
+	fakeProcess(t, 900, "xterm", "DISPLAY=:9", "XAUTHORITY=/elsewhere")
+	fakeProcess(t, 100, "i3", "DISPLAY=:1", "XAUTHORITY=/home/op/.Xauthority",
+		"DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus", "XDG_SESSION_ID=3", "SECRET_TOKEN=never-copied")
+	fakeProcess(t, 50, "bash", "PATH=/usr/bin")
+	s, err := findSession()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if s.Display != ":1" || s.XAuthority != "/home/op/.Xauthority" || s.SessionID != "3" || !strings.Contains(s.From, "i3 (pid 100)") {
+		t.Fatalf("the window manager's environment: %+v", s)
+	}
+	for _, kv := range s.Env() {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(kv, "SECRET_TOKEN=") {
+			t.Fatal("a variable of the session process that is not a session variable was handed on")
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAnyProcessCarryingADisplayServesWhenTheWindowManagerIsNotFound(t *testing.T) {
+	fakeMachine(t)
+	fakeProcess(t, 10, "firefox", "DISPLAY=:0")
+	fakeProcess(t, 20, "firefox", "DISPLAY=:2")
+	s, err := findSession()
+	if err != nil || s.Display != ":2" {
+		t.Fatalf("the newest of two equals: %+v, %v", s, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNoSessionIsAClearAnswerNotAGuess(t *testing.T) {
+	fakeMachine(t)
+	fakeProcess(t, 10, "sshd", "PATH=/usr/bin")
+	_, err := findSession()
+	if !errors.Is(err, ErrNoSession) || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "logged in to the desktop") {
+		t.Fatalf("no session: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestOneXSocketAndTheAccountsAuthorityFileAreASession(t *testing.T) {
+	root := fakeMachine(t)
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(x11Sockets, "X0"), nil, 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(root, "home"), 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(root, "home", ".Xauthority"), nil, 0o600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	s, err := findSession()
+	if err != nil || s.Display != ":0" || !strings.HasSuffix(s.XAuthority, "/home/.Xauthority") {
+		t.Fatalf("socket and authority: %+v, %v", s, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTheBusIsTheAccountsRuntimeDirectoryWhenNoProcessNamesIt(t *testing.T) {
+	fakeMachine(t)
+	runtime := filepath.Join(runUserDir, strconv.Itoa(os.Getuid()))
+	if _, err := findBus(); !errors.Is(err, ErrNoBus) {
+		t.Fatalf("no runtime directory is no bus: %v", err)
+	}
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(runtime, 0o700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(runtime, "bus"), nil, 0o600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	s, err := findBus()
+	if err != nil || s.Bus != "unix:path="+filepath.Join(runtime, "bus") || s.RuntimeDir != runtime {
+		t.Fatalf("bus: %+v, %v", s, err)
+	}
+	env := strings.Join(s.Env(), "\n")
+	if !strings.Contains(env, "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="+runtime) || !strings.Contains(env, "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=") {
+		t.Fatalf("the bus is handed on: %s", env)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestACommandIsBoundedAndANonZeroExitIsAResult(t *testing.T) {
+	fakeMachine(t)
+	s := Session{}
+	r, err := s.run(5*time.Second, "in", "sh", "-c", "cat; echo err >&2; exit 3")
+	if err != nil || r.Stdout != "in" || r.Code != 3 || strings.TrimSpace(r.Stderr) != "err" {
+		t.Fatalf("result: %+v, %v", r, err)
+	}
+	start := time.Now()
+	if _, err := s.run(200*time.Millisecond, "", "sh", "-c", "sleep 30 & sleep 30"); err == nil || time.Since(start) > 5*time.Second {
+		t.Fatalf("a command past its time is ended with what it started: %v after %s", err, time.Since(start))
+	}
+	if _, err := s.run(time.Second, "", "no-such-program-here"); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "not installed") {
+		t.Fatalf("a missing program: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDetachAsksTheAccountsServiceManagerWithTheSessionsDisplay(t *testing.T) {
+	fakeMachine(t)
+	bin := fakeBinaries(t, map[string]string{
+		"systemctl":   `echo "systemctl $*" >> "$LOG"`,
+		"systemd-run": `echo "systemd-run $*" >> "$LOG"`,
+	})
+	log := filepath.Join(bin, "log")
+	t.Setenv("LOG", log)
+	s := Session{Display: ":1", XAuthority: "/x", RuntimeDir: "/run/user/1"}
+	if err := s.detach("picom-session", "picom", "--config", "/c"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	got, _ := os.ReadFile(log)
+	want := "systemctl --user stop picom-session.service\n" +
+		"systemd-run --user --collect --quiet --unit=picom-session --setenv=DISPLAY=:1 --setenv=XAUTHORITY=/x -- picom --config /c\n"
+	if string(got) != want {
+		t.Fatalf("detach ran:\n%s\nwant:\n%s", got, want)
+	}
+	if err := (Session{}).detach("x", "y"); !errors.Is(err, ErrNoBus) {
+		t.Fatalf("no runtime directory: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// fakeBinaries puts shell scripts named for programs first on PATH, and answers their directory.
+func fakeBinaries(t *testing.T, scripts map[string]string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	for name, body := range scripts {
+		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, name), []byte("#!/bin/sh\n"+body+"\n"), 0o755); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	t.Setenv("PATH", dir+string(os.PathListSeparator)+os.Getenv("PATH"))
+	return dir
+}
diff --git a/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/wallpaper.go b/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/wallpaper.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4b7333
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/wallpaper.go
@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// modes are feh's background modes, by the word feh_set takes.
+var modes = []string{"fill", "center", "max", "scale", "tile"}
+
+// Wallpaper is images and how they are laid on the screens.
+type Wallpaper struct {
+	Images []string `json:"images"`
+	Mode   string   `json:"mode"`
+	At     string   `json:"at,omitempty"`
+}
+
+func fehbg() string { return filepath.Join(operatorHome(), ".fehbg") }
+
+// sessionRecord is where feh_set notes what it put up, for feh_current: in the runtime directory,
+// so it lasts exactly as long as the login, like the wallpaper itself.
+func sessionRecord(s Session) string {
+	if s.RuntimeDir == "" {
+		return ""
+	}
+	return filepath.Join(s.RuntimeDir, "feh", "current.json")
+}
+
+// SetResult is what feh_set answers.
+type SetResult struct {
+	Wallpaper
+	Note string `json:"note"`
+}
+
+// Set puts images up as the wallpaper for this session.
+func Set(images []string, mode string) (SetResult, error) {
+	if mode == "" {
+		mode = "fill"
+	}
+	known := false
+	for _, m := range modes {
+		known = known || m == mode
+	}
+	if !known {
+		return SetResult{}, fmt.Errorf("mode %q is one of %s", mode, strings.Join(modes, ", "))
+	}
+	if len(images) == 0 {
+		return SetResult{}, errors.New("images is required: at least one image")
+	}
+	var paths []string
+	for _, img := range images {
+		p := img
+		if strings.HasPrefix(p, "~/") {
+			p = filepath.Join(operatorHome(), p[2:])
+		}
+		if !filepath.IsAbs(p) {
+			p = filepath.Join(operatorHome(), p)
+		}
+		info, err := os.Stat(p)
+		if err != nil {
+			return SetResult{}, fmt.Errorf("image %s: %w", img, err)
+		}
+		if info.IsDir() {
+			return SetResult{}, fmt.Errorf("image %s is a directory", img)
+		}
+		paths = append(paths, p)
+	}
+	s, err := findSession()
+	if err != nil {
+		return SetResult{}, err
+	}
+	args := append([]string{"--no-fehbg", "--bg-" + mode}, paths...)
+	r, err := s.run(15*time.Second, "", "feh", args...)
+	if err != nil {
+		return SetResult{}, err
+	}
+	if r.Code != 0 {
+		return SetResult{}, fmt.Errorf("feh: %s", strings.TrimSpace(r.Stderr))
+	}
+	w := Wallpaper{Images: paths, Mode: mode, At: time.Now().Format(time.RFC3339)}
+	if rec := sessionRecord(s); rec != "" {
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(rec), 0o700); err == nil {
+			raw, _ := json.Marshal(w)
+			_ = os.WriteFile(rec, raw, 0o600)
+		}
+	}
+	return SetResult{Wallpaper: w, Note: "for this session; the declared wallpaper returns at the next login"}, nil
+}
+
+// CurrentResult is what feh_current answers.
+type CurrentResult struct {
+	Declared *Wallpaper `json:"declared"`
+	Session  *Wallpaper `json:"session,omitempty"`
+}
+
+var bgMode = regexp.MustCompile(`--bg-(fill|center|max|scale|tile)\b`)
+
+// Current is the declared wallpaper and the one set in this session.
+func Current() (CurrentResult, error) {
+	var out CurrentResult
+	if raw, err := os.ReadFile(fehbg()); err == nil {
+		out.Declared = parseFehbg(string(raw), operatorHome())
+	}
+	if rec := sessionRecord(findEnvironment()); rec != "" {
+		if raw, err := os.ReadFile(rec); err == nil {
+			var w Wallpaper
+			if json.Unmarshal(raw, &w) == nil {
+				out.Session = &w
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// parseFehbg reads the feh line of a ~/.fehbg: its mode and its images, with $HOME expanded.
+func parseFehbg(script, home string) *Wallpaper {
+	for _, line := range strings.Split(script, "\n") {
+		line = strings.TrimSpace(line)
+		if !strings.HasPrefix(line, "feh ") {
+			continue
+		}
+		w := &Wallpaper{Images: []string{}}
+		if m := bgMode.FindStringSubmatch(line); m != nil {
+			w.Mode = m[1]
+		}
+		for _, word := range shellWords(line)[1:] {
+			if strings.HasPrefix(word, "-") {
+				continue
+			}
+			word = strings.ReplaceAll(strings.ReplaceAll(word, "${HOME}", home), "$HOME", home)
+			w.Images = append(w.Images, word)
+		}
+		return w
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// shellWords splits a simple command line on blanks, honouring single and double quotes.
+func shellWords(line string) []string {
+	var words []string
+	var cur strings.Builder
+	var quote byte
+	in := false
+	for i := 0; i < len(line); i++ {
+		c := line[i]
+		switch {
+		case quote != 0 && c == quote:
+			quote = 0
+		case quote != 0:
+			cur.WriteByte(c)
+		case c == '\'' || c == '"':
+			quote, in = c, true
+		case c == ' ' || c == '\t':
+			if in {
+				words = append(words, cur.String())
+				cur.Reset()
+				in = false
+			}
+		default:
+			cur.WriteByte(c)
+			in = true
+		}
+	}
+	if in {
+		words = append(words, cur.String())
+	}
+	return words
+}
diff --git a/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/wallpaper_test.go b/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/wallpaper_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..135dc3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/feh/cmd/feh-tools/wallpaper_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"reflect"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+const nobody = 4194400
+
+func TestTheDeclaredWallpaperIsReadFromTheModulesFehbg(t *testing.T) {
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join("..", "..", "files", "fehbg"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	w := parseFehbg(string(raw), "/home/op")
+	if w == nil || w.Mode != "fill" || !reflect.DeepEqual(w.Images, []string{"/home/op/.local/share/feh/wallpapers/default.jpg"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("%+v", w)
+	}
+	// The form feh writes itself, single-quoted, two monitors.
+	w = parseFehbg("#!/bin/sh\nfeh --no-fehbg --bg-center '/a b/one.png' '/two.png' \n", "/home/op")
+	if w.Mode != "center" || !reflect.DeepEqual(w.Images, []string{"/a b/one.png", "/two.png"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("%+v", w)
+	}
+	if parseFehbg("#!/bin/sh\n", "/h") != nil {
+		t.Fatal("a file without feh declares a wallpaper")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSetPutsTheImagesUpForThisSessionAndCurrentSaysSo(t *testing.T) {
+	root := fakeMachine(t)
+	fakeProcess(t, nobody, "i3", "DISPLAY=:1")
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(runUserDir, strconv.Itoa(os.Getuid())), 0o700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	home := filepath.Join(root, "home")
+	for _, f := range []string{"Pictures/a.jpg", "Pictures/b.jpg"} {
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(filepath.Join(home, f)), 0o755); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(home, f), []byte("jpg"), 0o644); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	src, _ := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join("..", "..", "files", "fehbg"))
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(home, ".fehbg"), src, 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	bin := fakeBinaries(t, map[string]string{"feh": `echo "$* DISPLAY=$DISPLAY" > "$LOG"`})
+	t.Setenv("LOG", filepath.Join(bin, "log"))
+	got, err := Set([]string{"~/Pictures/a.jpg", "Pictures/b.jpg"}, "scale")
+	if err != nil || !strings.Contains(got.Note, "next login") {
+		t.Fatalf("%+v, %v", got, err)
+	}
+	asked, _ := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(bin, "log"))
+	want := "--no-fehbg --bg-scale " + filepath.Join(home, "Pictures/a.jpg") + " " + filepath.Join(home, "Pictures/b.jpg") + " DISPLAY=:1\n"
+	if string(asked) != want {
+		t.Fatalf("feh was asked %q, want %q", asked, want)
+	}
+	cur, err := Current()
+	if err != nil || cur.Declared == nil || cur.Session == nil || cur.Session.Mode != "scale" || len(cur.Session.Images) != 2 ||
+		cur.Declared.Images[0] != filepath.Join(home, ".local/share/feh/wallpapers/default.jpg") {
+		t.Fatalf("%+v, %v", cur, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSetRefusesWhatFehCannotShow(t *testing.T) {
+	fakeMachine(t)
+	if _, err := Set([]string{"/nowhere.jpg"}, ""); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a missing image was accepted")
+	}
+	if _, err := Set([]string{"/"}, ""); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a directory was accepted")
+	}
+	if _, err := Set([]string{"/etc/hostname"}, "stretch"); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("an unknown mode was accepted")
+	}
+	if _, err := Set(nil, ""); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("no image was accepted")
+	}
+	f := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "x.jpg")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(f, nil, 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := Set([]string{f}, ""); !errors.Is(err, ErrNoSession) {
+		t.Fatalf("without a session: %v", err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/feh/files/fehbg b/modules/feh/files/fehbg
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..a3159bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/feh/files/fehbg
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# The wallpaper (module feh, novox/hq ADR 0208). Owned by the mesh: replaced at every push. The
+# session's start runs it, and so may anything that wants the declared wallpaper back. The image is
+# the module's own, in ~/.local/share/feh/wallpapers. feh_set changes the wallpaper for a session
+# without touching this file.
+feh --no-fehbg --bg-fill "$HOME/.local/share/feh/wallpapers/default.jpg"
diff --git a/modules/feh/files/i3/50-feh.conf b/modules/feh/files/i3/50-feh.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..40ac7da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/feh/files/i3/50-feh.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# The wallpaper's key (module feh, novox/hq ADR 0208). Owned by the mesh: replaced at every push.
+# It puts the declared wallpaper back, after a monitor change or a wallpaper set for the session.
+bindsym $mod+Shift+b exec --no-startup-id ~/.fehbg
diff --git a/modules/feh/go.mod b/modules/feh/go.mod
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4df3720
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/feh/go.mod
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+module feh
+
+go 1.22
+
+require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.7
diff --git a/modules/feh/go.sum b/modules/feh/go.sum
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b474419
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/feh/go.sum
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.7 h1:C0sTQmtTiyYH7bnqZb7PusXnqA37gKuT7Nqjn9gG47w=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.7/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
diff --git a/modules/feh/module.json b/modules/feh/module.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9853e54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/feh/module.json
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+{
+  "module": "feh",
+  "version": "1",
+  "capabilities": [
+    "package-manager"
+  ],
+  "requires": [
+    "x11-display"
+  ],
+  "tools": [
+    "feh_set",
+    "feh_current"
+  ],
+  "shell": [
+    {
+      "for": "xinitrc",
+      "slot": "normal",
+      "code": "# The wallpaper (module feh, novox/hq ADR 0208): the declared one, set once per session.\n\"$HOME/.fehbg\"\n"
+    }
+  ],
+  "resources": [
+    {
+      "id": "package",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "feh"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "wallpapers",
+      "type": "archive",
+      "path": "${machine:account-home}/.local/share/feh/wallpapers",
+      "owner": "${machine:account}",
+      "artifact": "wallpapers"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "fehbg",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "${machine:account-home}/.fehbg",
+      "owner": "${machine:account}",
+      "mode": "0755",
+      "content": "#!/bin/sh\n# The wallpaper (module feh, novox/hq ADR 0208). Owned by the mesh: replaced at every push. The\n# session's start runs it, and so may anything that wants the declared wallpaper back. The image is\n# the module's own, in ~/.local/share/feh/wallpapers. feh_set changes the wallpaper for a session\n# without touching this file.\nfeh --no-fehbg --bg-fill \"$HOME/.local/share/feh/wallpapers/default.jpg\"\n"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "i3-bindings",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "${machine:account-home}/.config/i3/config.d/50-feh.conf",
+      "owner": "${machine:account}",
+      "mode": "0644",
+      "content": "# The wallpaper's key (module feh, novox/hq ADR 0208). Owned by the mesh: replaced at every push.\n# It puts the declared wallpaper back, after a monitor change or a wallpaper set for the session.\nbindsym $mod+Shift+b exec --no-startup-id ~/.fehbg\n"
+    }
+  ],
+  "build": {
+    "artifacts": [
+      {
+        "name": "wallpapers",
+        "kind": "archive",
+        "from": "wallpaper"
+      },
+      {
+        "name": "tools",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "go",
+        "system": "arch",
+        "from": "cmd/feh-tools",
+        "binary": "feh-tools",
+        "loads": [
+          "feh-tools"
+        ]
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+}
diff --git a/modules/feh/wallpaper/default.jpg b/modules/feh/wallpaper/default.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..266ad56
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