The solution I usually use for cases like this is to find a pretty background picture, then run 'display -window root <image>'. (Requires ImageMagick, of course.) This will show your picture in the background whenever a window isn't drawn over it.
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 11:16:13PM -0700, Martin wrote: > I am very new to Qtile and am having a barrage of problems getting it to > work decently. I hope some of you may be willing to lend a hand. > > The first problem (which caused me to give up on Qtile on numerous > occasions) is that the desktop doesn't have any background at all, meaning > that the screen will be occupied with the last graphic/window which > happened to be on screen last. For instance, if I open a terminal and exit, > the terminal will still appear to be there even though it is gone and you > cannot interact with it. > > If I move to a group which doens't have any open windows, it effectively > looks like I did not move to a new group at all (Except from the boxes > changeing in the groupbox widget). The windows from the previous group are > still displayed, but you cannot interact with them (because the screen is > supposed to only show the background). > > This caused me to abandon QTile on a few occasions, because it makes you > think nothing works, everything is confusing and you cannot figure out how > groups and layout works. Everything is just chaos. I had to work with QTile > for a couple of hours before I started to figure out how it worked/the > principle and only then did I realize that it had been trolling me all the > time. > > So the question: How can I set a background, eg. black which will occupy > any space not occupied by windows? Can this be done in the config? I don't > mind not having a background, they are usually not very useful in a tiling > manager. Can this be done easily or do I need to set up some sort of script > which, at any group change, blanks the screen and refreshes the windows? > > Is it just me who have this problem? > > Im running Qtile from a Ubuntu Gnome 14.04, having installed using apt-get > (QTile vs 0.8) and using the GDM to log in. I have a config file in > .config/qtile/config.py, mostly default based on > https://github.com/qtile/qtile/blob/develop/libqtile/resources/default_config.py > > (which is for the current version and not 0.8, don't know if that is an > issue) > > Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "qtile-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Tom Hunt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qtile-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
