[Trisquel-users] How to make nitrogen load a wallpaper on startup silently

2014-01-24 Thread shiretoko
Hey guys, I'm experimenting at the moment with some minimalistic tiling window manager such as i3 or awesome. In order to have a nice look I have to start nitrogen after I booted the pc and set the wallpaper manually, and that's pretty annoying. As far as I read in the manual nitrogen will

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to make nitrogen load a wallpaper on startup silently

2014-01-24 Thread holger . beetz
Try either .bash_profile or .bashrc

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to make nitrogen load a wallpaper on startup silently

2014-01-24 Thread mikko . viinamaki
For any command that needs to be run as root, you'll need to fiddle with the scripts in /etc/rc2.d/ (as the default runlevel is 2) It's quite complex but you can get a dirty hack going...

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to make nitrogen load a wallpaper on startup silently

2014-01-24 Thread George Standish
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 03:16:15PM +0100, shiret...@web.de wrote: Which file is this a) for normal user commands b) for root user commands? re a) create a ~/.xsession file with at least two lines, nitrogen --replace (or whatever you need), then a second line exec YOUR_WM_HERE re b) don't

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to make nitrogen load a wallpaper on startup silently

2014-01-24 Thread george . standish
NO!

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to make nitrogen load a wallpaper on startup silently

2014-01-24 Thread george . standish
sorry. you're right - it wasn't polite or helpful.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to make nitrogen load a wallpaper on startup silently

2014-01-24 Thread mikko . viinamaki
On the other hand adding fortune to ~/.bashrc is one of the best ideas I've ever had. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to make nitrogen load a wallpaper on startup silently

2014-01-24 Thread george . standish
fortune is fine, 'cause it's a text application. you don't want Xorg stuff running from a .bashrc (in case you aren't actually in Xorg)

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to make nitrogen load a wallpaper on startup silently

2014-01-24 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Yes and you don't need to run it every time you pop up a terminal window.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to make nitrogen load a wallpaper on startup silently

2014-01-24 Thread shiretoko
Thank you guys, I created the .xinit and will post later if it's working. Every attempt to help is appreciated and of course everybody can confuse things from time to time, so let's be nice to each other. Thanks to all!