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[niri] still scrolling (lemmy.ml)
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[-] Obnomus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Op I need help like I'm using swww to set a random wallpaper at startup from my wallpaper folder, now I can't understand how do I set the same wallpaper in overview.

[-] variety4me@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I used 2 wallpaper applications to achieve this, swww and swaybg

  1. For Niri, set layet rule
layer-rule {
    match namespace="^wallpaper$"
    place-within-backdrop true
}
  1. Spawn at startup with niri swaybg -i .local/share/backgrounds/paint-blur.jpg &
  2. Independent of niri use swww to set wallpaper swww img .local/share/backgrounds/paint.jpg

Hope this helps

[-] variety4me@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

you could pick a random file from folader in a bash script... something like this:

RANDOM_FILE=$(find "$SOURCE_FOLDER" -type f | shuf -n 1)
[-] Obnomus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I'm doing it but, Idk how do I set the same random wallpaper in overview.

[-] Obnomus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I used this but I'm choosing a random wallpaper from my wallpaper folder. Btw thanks for this.

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