Any alternative to nitrogen that will allow fading transition of bg?

schwim · 2020-08-20 20:23:11

Hi there folks!

I utilize nitrogen in a script run on 10 minute intervals to transition random bg images and I read the man page for nitrogen and there doesn't seem to be an option available for this. I was just wondering if there's an option for us that will allow a fading transition of some sort between backgrounds?

Thanks for your time!

Script:

#!/bin/bash

export DISPLAY=":0"

DIR="/home/schwim/Remote/MEGA/images/desktop"

PIC=$(ls $DIR/*.jpg | shuf -n1)

nitrogen --set-zoom-fill $PIC

damo · 2020-08-20 22:08:52

You can't fade but you can use feh to rotate backgrounds. See man feh - BACKGROUND SETTING.

schwim · 2020-08-21 15:11:07

Thanks damo. I did a bit more searching and playing around with feh, nitrogen, imagemagick etc but it seems that I'm asking a bit much of the openbox environment. I think I'm best just accepting the abrupt swaps.

Thanks very much for your time!

JCN-9000 · 2020-08-21 16:11:17

glslideshow from xscreensaver package ?

Not tried myself but heard it will do it.

damo · 2020-08-21 19:06:09

There is also variety in the Debian stable repo, which doesn't have fades, but does have various filters which can be applied.

schwim · 2020-08-21 21:11:46

I did find variety via this page and will give it a whirl along with the others. Can't hurt to try as I can always roll back the VM if anything goes awry.

ohnonot · 2020-08-22 07:23:05

JCN-9000 wrote:

glslideshow from xscreensaver package ?
Not tried myself but heard it will do it.

This.
Most screensavers from xscreensaver have a -root option.
They can be called directly; IIRC the directory they reside in is even added to PATH, if not, it was something like
/usr/lib/xscreensaver/glslideshow
(a simple 'dpkg -L xscreensaver' will tell you where they are)
They even have man pages.
A command line can be constructed & added to autostart.

schwim · 2020-08-23 15:12:52

I played around with glslideshow a bit and I found that at least in my environment, it's a terrible solution. Tint and conky both have issues regaining visibility, anything under conky doesn't display bg, etc. I'm sure I could invest hours in reading man pages and Googling but I think if I need a fading transitions that badly, I'll just see if one of the other deb flavors will run well in a VM.

hhh · 2020-08-23 16:05:06

I'm about to download and test it, Variety. I don't know if it has fades...

https://packages.debian.org/buster/variety

hhh · 2020-08-23 16:10:13

Yes, this is the shizznit. I'm on buster Cinnamon ATM so your mileage may vary, but after installing it and feh I have a beautiful fade transition to the next wallpaper, and it has lots of settings options. 10/10 would recommend Variety.

hhh · 2020-08-23 16:34:10

Oh, hell yes! The clock option lets you customize the font. Pic or it didn't happen...

Font size, too...

I love the systray icon. Don't like a wall? Next!

hhh · 2020-08-23 17:43:35

Configure the clock and date formats (switch to 12hr if you're an American, for example) in ~/.config/variety/variety.conf...

https://peterlevi.com/variety/2012/11/c … the-clock/

I'm going to be a dick here... tongue

Y'all's search engine skills suck. This was the first result I got for "Debian wallpaper slideshow with fade"...

https://askubuntu.com/questions/134/how … -slideshow

The clock changing time is lickable.

-edit- Added a one-line conky...

hhh · 2020-08-23 20:37:55

Right, I can't get it to work in BL. The systray icon is there and the preferences window opens and appears to work, but no slideshow.

Instant karma for being a dick.

PackRat · 2020-08-23 20:58:32

hhh wrote:

The clock changing time is lickable.

Yum. tongue

hhh · 2020-08-23 21:16:27

So maybe this solution from @ohnonot and @snap for Openbox?

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=704

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Feh Slideshow
Name[en_US]=feh-slideshow
Name[es_ES]=feh-pase de fotos
GenericName=Image viewer
GenericName[en_US]=Image viewer
GenericName[es_ES]=Visor de imágenes
Comment=Fast Imlib2-based Image Viewer
Comment[es_ES]=Pase de fotos con Feh
Exec=feh-browser %f -F -Z -x -q -Y -D 3 .
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/usr/share/icons/cab_view.png
Categories=Graphics;2DGraphics;Viewer;
MimeType=image/bmp;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/jpg;image/pjpeg;image/png;image/tiff;image/x-bmp;image/x-pcx;image/x-png;image/x-portable-anymap;image/x-portable-bitmap;image/x-portable-graymap;image/x-portable-pixmap;image/x-tga;image/x-xbitmap;

hhh · 2020-09-02 17:57:44

So you don't even need Variety with Cinnamon, Cinnamon has a built-in fading slideshow available in its "Background" settings GUI. Install Cinnamon on lithium/buster with...

sudo apt install cinnamon

... and see what you think.

https://packages.debian.org/buster/cinnamon

Lockscreen scrot...

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 76#p105976

schwim · 2020-09-08 14:18:24

Hi there folks and thanks very much for the help! I'll give the modifications suggested a shot and report back!

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