LeftWM tiling window manager, how does one change the wallpaper?

[MrAbc]

Hello everyone

I am new to Manjaro and Linux in general.

I have installed LeftWM, and all is working great so far, but I am really confused with changing wallpapers.

The LeftWM docs do not mention how to do this, I suspect because that isn’t LeftWM’s job or function.

This is fair enough, but as someone that has now switched to LeftWM, can someone please tell me how I would go about changing the wallpaper? I did try googling for “change wallpaper when leftwm is installed” …etc but got no actionable resulsts.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[linux-aarhus]

leftwm/leftwm

Look at the themes folder and the up file

#set background
if [ -x "$(command -v feh)" ]; then
  feh --bg-scale $SCRIPTPATH/background.jpg
fi

Maybe some custom thems

leftwm/leftwm-community-themes

[MrAbc]

Thank you @linux-aarhus, is that how things usually go with tile managers? I mean do I always have to go via typed-out config to change my wallpaper?

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t actually mind, I was just wondering if there was some other popular utility that arch-based Linux users used to set wallpapers.

[linux-aarhus]

A window manager - either tiling or stacking - will always require more of the user than a full blown desktop.

But once you get the hang of it - it hard to let go.

[MrAbc]

Makes sense, thanks @linux-aarhus.

I looked into ls -lah ~/.config/leftwm/themes/basic_ploly and noticed a file named background.jpg. I replaced that with my own image (gave it the same name) and restarted my machine, but the wallpaper hasn’t updated.

Is there more I must do?

[MrAbc]

I figured it out.

In my up file, I had the following:

 if [ -x "$(command -v feh)" ]; then

The problem is, I did not have feh installed. So I change that line to:

 if [ -x "$(command -v sxiv)" ]; then

And now my wallpaper is set.

Many thanks