Wallpapers Easily and 'Hackably' on Linux

How do you set wallpapers in Linux? I show not just how I set them, but easy features to add that pick random wallpapers, change wallpapers persistently, generate color schemes from wall papers and even view wallpapers in a gallery for picking. It's way easier than you think if you just use command line tools instead of a silly gui walled garden! 😉 You can do a lot with xwallpaper!

[Babbler]

You know, people are dying, the economy is collapsing and the world is falling apart, but at least I can watch Luke's videos everyday and customize my ThinkPad just as I want it, so everthing is going to be alright.

[AndrewLovelesss]

guys.. to have video wallpaper just change it 60 times every second ..no performance dip because arch btw😎

[sigmahyperon]

Luke, you should really have a terminal shortcut for increasing the font on a predefined larger size, since we see you doing it every time?

[bograham]

what I learned:
>feh is bloat
>no matter how weird you may be, you're a "normal person" if you don't use wayland

[AlexanderRundberg]

"People give arch users a hard time, but really it's wayland users who won't shutup about the stupid software they use"
-- man with youtube channel dedicated mostly to talking the software he uses



btw I use sway

[luisalejandrohernandezmaya]

It generates a color scheme based on wallpaper colors! Woow!!! I love it! Your video deserve my like.

[aleksfadini]

It took a pandemic to get Luke to go back to making videos. Whatever it takes!

[eamoc]

Trinity College Dublin Library! Greetings from Dublin :-)

[rchetype]

Wow, I was using feh to handle my wallpapers before now.
Using sxiv and xwallpaper is more aligned with the UNIX philosophy.

[LeatherPretzel]

I feel personally touched by this video because the thumbnail wallpaper is literally one I've been using for 10 years!

[GeorgeLioris]

You can combine ueberzug with fzf to make an interactive prompt with previews inside the terminal

[ethana.]

I find using sxiv's marking capability useful in scripts:


You can mark a bunch of files, and with the -o command you can send the filenames to stdout.
These names can be piped into a script to remove/move the image files.


I'm trying to figure other useful things you can do with the marking capability.

[snax]

BTW, pywal actually sets the background you last selected if you run `wal -R` and it doesn't have to be in one specific location

[JasonPhillips]

I wrote a simple wallpaper function:

fnd_wall_fnc(){
cd ~/Pictures/wallpapers-master/
f_bg=`find -maxdepth 5 -type f | shuf -n 1`
feh --bg-scale $f_bg
}

It might be crude, but it works.

[theproftiago]

Man please .... make more videos like that. you and Distrotube are very good on that....and make a colab with him... Good teachers should work together

[barmetler]

I'm more or less new to linux in general, but I'm happy with using feh like this:

while true; do
for f in ~/Pictures/Backgrounds/*; do
feh --bg-fill --no-fehbg "$f"
sleep 1800
done
done

I just launch that from my bspwmrc.


I have never heard of the shuf command, I might give that a try next.

Edit: That shuf thing works a treat:

while true; do
feh --bg-fill --no-fehbg "$(find "$HOME/Pictures/Backgrounds/" -name "*.jpg" -o -name "*.jpeg" -o -name "*.png" -type f | shuf -n 1)"
sleep 1800
done

[shooksnc]

Thank's Luke for out of the barn ideas.

[MyOldNameWasTaken]

At 8:15
That is the tightest shit I have ever seen.
Thanks for the information luke

[AtomToast]

I have a shortcut mapped to running `sxiv -art $HOME/Pictures` to browse all my pictures in sxiv.
Important to note here are the r and t flags: -r automatically searches the given directories recursively for images and -t opens sxiv directly in thumbnail mode.


From there I can ofc run all my keyhandlers like for setting my wallpaper with setroot or rotating them etc

[gery]

My problem with pywal is that sometimes it selects colors that are too similar. Sometimes there is no way around it because the image is pretty monochromatic to begin with but there are pictures that seem pretty colorful yet suffer from the same problem.