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kerick
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 Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:59 am Post subject: HOWTO: Wallpaper on each workspace in Openbox/PekWM |
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So I was on the look for a different WM/Panel/desktop whatever yesterday. I found what I wanted except for one thing. Fluxbox has individual wallpaper per workspace ( through fluxter or fluxspace ) and Openbox doesn't. I wanted to use Openbox, so I didn't have to give up my precious pypanel. Of Course, I was not happy when I found out I didn't have a choice between the two for this...So I wrote a script to hang out and do the same thing fluxter does when it switches wallpapers per workspace. Also, I'll throw in a little bonus, which you may or may not care about. Mostly because I have a large collection of wallpapers in separate folders and demand that I can access them all from one script.
*EDIT Now I'm using PekWM and this works great
Also now a way to do this with Dual Head Displays+Xinerama
#include <Std_Disclaimer.h>
First create a list of wallpapers that have their full path
find /home/storage/Picturesandstuff/Wallpaper/ -type f > wallpaperlist
Next use a script similar to this one ( I modified someone else's from this forum )
Depending on the amount of your workspaces you may want to make additional scripts or bunch them all up into one
This will make a link from one of your wallpapers to a link in the directory that you modify it to
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#!/bin/bash
IMGLIST=/home/jc/scripts/wallpaperlist
IMGLINE=0
WALLPAPERLINK=/home/jc/scripts/background1.jpg
IMGCOUNT=$(cat ${IMGLIST} | wc -l | awk '{print $1}')
while [ ${IMGLINE} -eq 0 ]
do
IMGLINE=${RANDOM}
let "IMGLINE %= ${IMGCOUNT}"
done
NEWWALLPAPER=$(head -${IMGLINE} ${IMGLIST} | tail -1)
ln -sf ${NEWWALLPAPER} ${WALLPAPERLINK}
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*EDIT If you're using Dual Head Xinerama ( Maybe this will work with Nvidia's Dual Head as well )
This will also require ImageMagick to be installed
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#!/bin/bash
#Change MAXWIDTH to the width of your dual displays ex. 1280 * 2 = 2560
MAXWIDTH=2560
IMGLIST=/home/jc/scripts/wallpaperlist
IMGLINE=0
IMGLINE2=0
WALLPAPERLINK=/home/jc/scripts/background1.jpg
IMGCOUNT=$(cat ${IMGLIST} | wc -l | awk '{print $1}')
while [ ${IMGLINE} -eq 0 ]
do
IMGLINE=${RANDOM}
let "IMGLINE %= ${IMGCOUNT}"
done
while [ ${IMGLINE2} -eq 0 ]
do
IMGLINE2=${RANDOM}
let "IMGLINE2 %= ${IMGCOUNT}"
done
WALL1=$(head -${IMGLINE} ${IMGLIST} | tail -1)
WALL2=$(head -${IMGLINE2} ${IMGLIST} | tail -1)
`convert ${WALL1} -resize 2560 ${WALL2} -resize 2560 +append -geometry 2560x1024 ${WALLPAPERLINK}`
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Next I threw my scripts into cron as follows ( Because when you have thousands of wallpapers, you want to see them all  ) :
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10 * * * * /home/jc/scripts/randompaper
10 * * * * /home/jc/scripts/randompaper2
10 * * * * /home/jc/scripts/randompaper3
10 * * * * /home/jc/scripts/randompaper4
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Now for the wallpaper Changer, Which you may or may not want to start when openbox runs
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#!/bin/bash
CURRENTDESKTOP=`xprop -root | grep '_NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP(CARDINAL*' | awk -F= '{print $2}'`
OLDDESKTOP=5
while :
do
sleep 2
CURRENTDESKTOP=`xprop -root | grep '_NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP(CARDINAL*' | awk -F= '{print $2}'`
if [ $CURRENTDESKTOP -ne $OLDDESKTOP ]; then
case $CURRENTDESKTOP
in
*0) fbsetbg /home/jc/scripts/background1.jpg;;
*1) fbsetbg /home/jc/scripts/background2.jpg;;
*2) fbsetbg /home/jc/scripts/background3.jpg;;
*3) fbsetbg /home/jc/scripts/background4.jpg;;
esac
OLDDESKTOP=$CURRENTDESKTOP
fi
done
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This is only for the default 4 workspace enviroment, but if you add additional lines it should work fine. Unfortunately on my AMD64 box wmctrl isn't working so I had to take the half-assed approach as you can see in $CURRENTDESKTOP.
I'm sure someone can write this a little better (after all not much time was spent on it anyways), but it works.
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darkmason
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Joined: 31 Aug 2003
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Location: London, UK
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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I've just started using PekWM, and I made to a basic script to do something similar last night. But I never had the idea of having different backgrounds on different workspaces, I like it. Thanks for the ideas, I'm off to go try them out.
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darkmason
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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If you're interested, heres what I ended up with for my 4 workspace PekWM:
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#!/bin/bash
IMGCOUNT=0
WALLPAPERDIR=/home/dark/.pekwm/wallpaper
for i in `find $WALLPAPERDIR -type f -printf '%h/%f\n'`
do
IMGLIST=$IMGLIST$i:
IMGCOUNT=$(($IMGCOUNT + 1))
done
for i in 0 1 2 3
do
IMGLINE=0
while [ ${IMGLINE} -eq 0 ]
do
IMGLINE=${RANDOM}
let "IMGLINE %= ${IMGCOUNT}"
done
NEWWALLPAPER=`echo $IMGLIST | cut -d : -f $IMGLINE`
ln -sf ${NEWWALLPAPER} $WALLPAPERDIR/symlinks/$i
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I keep all my wallpapers in /home/dark/.pekwm/wallpapers and all the symlinks are created in the subdirectory 'symlinks' in the form wallpapers/symlinks/1, wallpapers/symlinks/2 etc.
Saves having to make a wallpaperlist.
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