Files

T

jochen d95eecac53 feh: the wallpaper as a module, its image an archive of its own (hq ADR 0208, ADR 0205)

~/.fehbg stops pointing into the predecessor's tree; the session's xinitrc slot
runs it once; Go tools set (for the session) and current.

2026-10-04 13:10:58 +02:00

2.2 KiB

Raw Blame History

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.

2.2 KiB Raw Blame History

feh