You can have feh set a random wallpaper using the -randomize option with one of the -bg-foo options, for example: Note that this requires the imagemagick package. $ feh -bg-center path/to/file/for/first/monitor path/to/file/for/second/monitor Open SVG images $ feh -conversion-timeout 1 file.svg For example, for a dual monitor setup it would be: To setup different wallpapers for different monitors one should pass as many file paths as many monitors are available. One can explicitly disable the creation of the ~/.fehbg, by passing the -no-fehbg flag as well. To change the background image, edit the file ~/.fehbg which gets created after running the command feh -bg-scale /path/to/image.file mentioned above. ~/.xinitrc, ~/.config/openbox/autostart, etc.): To restore the background on the next session, add the following to your startup file (e.g. The following command is an example of how to set the initial background: Set the wallpaperįeh can be used to set the desktop wallpaper, for example for window managers without this feature such as Openbox, Fluxbox, and xmonad. views all images in the current directory, starting with foo.jpg. as if you had run feh * and cycled through to the selected image. Tip: The -start-at option will display a selected image in feh while allowing to browse all other images in the directory as well, in their default order, i.e.

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