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damo

#! gimpbanger

From: N51.5 W002.8 (mostly)

Registered: 2011-11-24

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Setting wallpaper during installation

If we want a background with graphics instead of a plain tile, for the default installation, wouldn't there be a need for a script to detect screen resolution and number of screens so the appropriate size image(s) can be set?

Presumably this also needs to happen if a new user is added.

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Re: Setting wallpaper during installation

Have nitrogen autostart with "--restore --set-zoom-fill" options?

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brontosaurusrex

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Registered: 2012-06-15

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Re: Setting wallpaper during installation

or tile for background and centered conky to draw a logo. < kinda resolution independent approach.

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twoion

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Re: Setting wallpaper during installation

or tile for background and centered conky to draw a logo. < kinda resolution independent approach.

That's a good point; but since damo's velvet-noisy ellipsis-flame-wallpapers are made so that just centering a high-res paper should also produce good result on low-res monitors (maybe not 320x240), I don't think that added complexity is necessary.

nitrogen --restore --set-zoom-fill

Why should we prefer nitrogen over feh? feh looks much more leaner, and provides a full solution for the problem at hand.

% apt-cache depends feh
feh
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libcurl3
  Depends: libexif12
  Depends: libimlib2
  Depends: libpng12-0
  Depends: libx11-6
  Depends: libxinerama1
  Recommends: libjpeg-progs
    libjpeg-turbo-progs
  Conflicts: feh:i386
% apt-cache depends nitrogen
nitrogen
  Depends: libatk1.0-0
  Depends: libatkmm-1.6-1
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libcairo2
  Depends: libcairomm-1.0-1
  Depends: libfontconfig1
  Depends: libfreetype6
  Depends: libgcc1
  Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
  Depends: libglib2.0-0
  Depends: libglibmm-2.4-1c2a
  Depends: libgtk2.0-0
  Depends: libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a
  Depends: libpango-1.0-0
  Depends: libpangocairo-1.0-0
  Depends: libpangoft2-1.0-0
  Depends: libpangomm-1.4-1
  Depends: libsigc++-2.0-0c2a
  Depends: libstdc++6
  Depends: libx11-6
  Depends: libxinerama1
  Conflicts: nitrogen:i386

feh --bg-center would work just as well, and feh does also have a feature equivalent to --restore (~/.fehbg).

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brontosaurusrex

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Registered: 2012-06-15

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Re: Setting wallpaper during installation

@twoion; you can still combine velvet in fit mode and logo in native resolution.

p.s. conky relevant code for the logo, example;

alignment middle_middle
minimum_size 260 392

Under text

${image ~/logo.png -p 0,0 -s 260x392}

scrot

(Note: gap_x would have to be 0 and gap_y 40, to really center...)

That would also allow users to remove/replace logo and/or wallpaper as they see fit.

p.s. Another option would be svg combo of bitmap and vector logo, which is then rasterized based on screen res. < untested.

Last edited by brontosaurusrex (2015-03-06 00:17:52)

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Re: Setting wallpaper during installation

Why use either? If going minimal, then hsetroot can set the background, and conky can do the rest.

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hhh

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Re: Setting wallpaper during installation

nitrogen --restore --set-zoom-fill

Why should we prefer nitrogen over feh? feh looks much more leaner, and provides a full solution for the problem at hand...

It was a suggestion. feh is good, I've used feh. feh can set a random wallpaper, not a feature I use though. I thought nitrogen was in Waldorf, and nitrogen is easier for the user. You can preview "on the fly" as it were, it loads a whole directory and you can quickly apply walls in different styles (centered, scaled, etc...) So it pulls a few more libraries, installed space is under 500kB on amd64, and the difference in size between it and nitrogen on i386 is minimal...
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/nitrogen
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/feh

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Re: Setting wallpaper during installation

It's been said several times lately - CrunchBang wasn't a minimalistic setup really. Does BunsenLabs have to be squeezing every last megabyte of install size?

No-one's talking about installing the whole KDE library set just to get an image viewer of course...

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damo

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From: N51.5 W002.8 (mostly)

Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 5,434

Re: Setting wallpaper during installation

As already said, feh is a good tool, but we are also catering for new users as well so a light gui application is needed imo. Nitrogen does the job fine.

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