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[Dr. Z2A]

I recently added some themes to fluxbox on my computer. I put the themes in ~/.fluxbox/styles/ and put the backgrounds in ~/.fluxbox/styles/. I can use all of the themes, but none of them display a background image. Does anyone know how this might be fixed?

[R3c0n]

I recently added some themes to fluxbox on my computer. I put the themes in ~/.fluxbox/styles/ and put the backgrounds in ~/.fluxbox/styles/. I can use all of the themes, but none of them display a background image. Does anyone know how this might be fixed?

If you go into the configuaration menu in fluxbox (on right click), there should be a option similar to "Enable Background" , when this is chosen, it should fix the problem. Try it.

[systems_glitch]

You may not have a utility to set the background...type "fbsetbg" (without quotes of course) at the CLI...if that gives an error, you don't have a suitable application for fbsetbg to set a background with. I recommend feu.

[Dr. Z2A]

Ah yeah, I did fbsetbg and it gave me an error. I looked for Feu on apt, freshmeat, and google and didn't see it, do you have a link to the page for it?

edit: I read up a bit and found out that I had to use fbsetbg -i, it is currently using Esetroot. I installed Feh on my box, but I don't know how to make it use Feh, anyone know how I would do this?

Edited by Dr. Z2A, 22 November 2006 - 09:18 PM.

[bitMonkey]

Yup. Just run:

WPSETTERS=feh fbsetbg filename

I suppose you could put this in your ~/.bashrc instead:

export WPSETTERS=feh

EDIT: tpyo

Edited by bitMonkey, 09 December 2006 - 01:51 AM.

[murfman]

hmmm.... i actually thought that fbsetbg used atiered system , feh first then esetroot, etc. but I could be wrong.

Also, most theme artists have the path for the background as a full path not using the ~/ shortcut, inotherwords, find the fbsetbg line in the theme file and edit to point to the proper location.

Edited by murfman, 09 December 2006 - 09:46 PM.

[Enkil]

fbsetbg -l (l as in larry) will load the last background you used. what you can do is add it to session.screen0.rootcommand: fbsetbg -l

i used eterm to avoid the problems, brings esetroot as a part of the eterm package ( apt-get install eterm )
eterm = not fully transparent unless you specify in theme
aterm = goes all sexy and cristaline.

using win2k and gettin this off the top of my head, someone correct it if i said something too stupid thati didnt get to try before writing down

[digitelle]

Try moving your backgrounds from ~/.fluxbox/styles/ to ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/ or sudo move them into /usr/share/fluxbox/backgrounds/ should be the most simple fix that I can think of.

~Digi

[iceni]

i know no one probably cares, but here's my desktop now

[codar]

i know no one probably cares, but here's my desktop now

i like it, what filer do you use e.g rox, thunar etc.
and at the bottom right of the screen what app is that, the one that tells you the news and stuff

Edited by codar, 29 December 2006 - 08:44 AM.

[Alk3]

It is either Conky or Torsmo. Torsmo is no longer maintained and conky is a fork of torsmo (newer and maintained).

Conky

Alk3

[iceni]

yeah, that's conky all down the right side.