BunsenLabs Theming 101

jimjamz · 2016-07-09 10:30:10

Is there a way to set the wallpaper image and its attributes (scaled, stretched etc...) via the terminal?

Off-topic slightly, but is there also a way to reload conky via the terminal also?

I would like to reset the wallpaper automatically and conky's position after running my randr shell script to switch to another physical screen.

damo · 2016-07-09 12:25:22

jimjamz wrote:

Is there a way to set the wallpaper image and its attributes (scaled, stretched etc...) via the terminal?
Off-topic slightly, but is there also a way to reload conky via the terminal also?
I would like to reset the wallpaper automatically and conky's position after running my randr shell script to switch to another physical screen.

You can set the background with 'feh' (see 'man feh'). Example:

feh --bg-scale /path/to/image

---------------
Reload conky session with

bl-conky-session

and see:

bl-conky-session --help

Also

conky -c /path/to/conkyrc

hhh · 2016-07-09 14:30:37

damo wrote:

jimjamz wrote:
Is there a way to set the wallpaper image and its attributes (scaled, stretched etc...) via the terminal?
Off-topic slightly, but is there also a way to reload conky via the terminal also?
I would like to reset the wallpaper automatically and conky's position after running my randr shell script to switch to another physical screen.
You can set the background with 'feh' (see 'man feh'). Example:
feh --bg-scale /path/to/image

Or with nitrogen...

nitrogen --restore

See man nitrogen...
http://www.linuxcertif.com/man/1/nitrogen/

Save the endangered Swedish iguana!

-edit- man feh (we can haz moar optionz) http://linux.die.net/man/1/feh

damo · 2016-07-09 14:48:20

hhh wrote:

...
Or with nitrogen...
nitrogen --restore
See man nitrogen...
http://www.linuxcertif.com/man/1/nitrogen/
...

But that restores a background with whichever mode was set in bg-saved.cfg. The OP asked how to set scaled/filled..etc from the terminal. I guess you could use a one-liner with 'sed' to edit the mode value in the config file, then '&& nitrogen --restore'.

pvsage · 2016-07-10 04:18:24

:~$ nitrogen -h
Usage:
	--help, -h
		Prints this help text.
	--no-recurse
		Do not recurse into subdirectories
	--restore
		Restore saved backgrounds
	--save
		Saves the background permanently
	--set-auto
		Sets the background to the given file (auto)
	--set-centered
		Sets the background to the given file (centered)
	--set-color=[arg]
		background color in hex, #000000 by default
	--set-scaled
		Sets the background to the given file (scaled)
	--set-tiled
		Sets the background to the given file (tiled)
	--set-zoom
		Sets the background to the given file (zoom)
	--set-zoom-fill
		Sets the background to the given file (zoom-fill)
	--sort=[arg]
		How to sort the backgrounds. Valid options are:
			* alpha, for alphanumeric sort
			* ralpha, for reverse alphanumeric sort
			* time, for last modified time sort (oldest first)
			* rtime, for reverse last modified time sort (newest first)

No idea why these options aren't all listed in the man file. EDIT: Also, I don't see any command-line option hat handles dual head/Xinerama.

Last edited by pvsage (2016-07-10 04:20:45)

hhh · 2016-07-10 05:31:10

@damo, thanks! I was just throwing another option out, I hadn't thought through the details or relevance!

damo · 2016-07-10 06:41:11

pvsage wrote:

:~$ nitrogen -h
Usage:
.....
No idea why these options aren't all listed in the man file. EDIT: Also, I don't see any command-line option hat handles dual head/Xinerama.

Well, whodathoughtit? I've always gone for 'man' for full usage. That is really crap of the devs for hiding all those switches behind an enigmatic, and not very amusing

--help A mystery option which saves the iguanas of Sweden

jimjamz · 2016-07-12 21:38:55

Thank you to all of you for your suggestions. I will be 'man'ing all of those options, as well as checking out the --help prefix in case any other hidden options! :-)

Thanks again.

johnraff · 2016-07-13 04:09:56

pvsage wrote:

No idea why these options aren't all listed in the man file.

The --help options of a package usually get updated with the package itself, while the manual is often a bit behind. It's quite common to find stuff via --help that isn't in the manual, in my experience.

catch22 · 2016-07-31 07:03:22

hhh wrote:

... in your Bunsen-Orange folder, open /xfce-notify-4.0/gtkrc and change #e6e6e6 to #F23814 (twice, lines #12 and #40)...

When I look in this file it has line 40 with #808080.
#e6e6e6 appears at lines 12, 24, 25 and 30..?

Last edited by catch22 (2016-07-31 07:03:51)

hhh · 2019-02-26 01:47:05

I'm unstickying this thread, a lot of it needs to be updated and some of it is now obsolete.

phuturism · 2020-12-30 04:57:11

I'm looking for the hex code for the busen lithium "faded red"... call me silly but I can't find it in .Xresources etc.

edit; Belay that, found it!

Last edited by phuturism (2020-12-30 05:40:18)

deleted0 · 2020-12-30 14:38:32

^ Share the answer for anyone else looking for the info. TIA.

8bit

damo · 2020-12-30 15:56:37

eight.bit.al wrote:

^ Share the answer for anyone else looking for the info. TIA.
8bit

The easy way is to use a colour-picker, available with eg geany, gimp, yad etc

phuturism · 2020-12-31 03:22:45

eight.bit.al wrote:

^ Share the answer for anyone else looking for the info. TIA.
8bit

Yeah, my bad...

I actually cheated and found it via the forum at a post like this https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 413#p95413

damo wrote:

eight.bit.al wrote:
^ Share the answer for anyone else looking for the info. TIA.
8bit
The easy way is to use a colour-picker, available with eg geany, gimp, yad etc

Thanks! Just tried it using geany.

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