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Feh
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What is feh?
feh is an X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users. Unlike most other viewers, it does not have a fancy GUI, but simply displays images. It is controlled via commandline arguments and configurable key/mouse actions.Feh homepage
USE-Flags
| Use flag | Default | Recommended | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | No | Add support for the Client-Side URL transfer library. | |
| debug | No | Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces, see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml. | |
| exif | No | Add support for reading EXIF headers from JPEG and TIFF images. | |
| xinerama | No | Yes, if you have multiple screens. Otherwise, no. | Add support for the xinerama X11 extension, which is mandator if you work in a multiple monitor setup. |
Installing feh
After adding your USE flags (or not) to /etc/portage/package.use/feh, you can emerge feh:
root # emerge feh
Using feh
Set desktop background
feh has several options for setting your desktop background:
- --bg-center: Center the image file on the background. If the image file is smaller in resolution than the screen resolution, it will have black borders around it.
- --bg-scale: Fit the image to the background without repeating it, cutting parts of the image off, or using black borders. Because of these changes, the aspect ratio is not preserved.
- --bg-fill: Similar to --bg-scale except that it tries to fill the image to the screen while maintaining its aspect ratio. This may result in parts of the image being cut off.
- --bg-max: Similar to --bg-fill, except that scales the image to the maximum size that fits the screen. This leads to black borders on one side.
- --bg-tile: Tile the image across the screen.
Here is an example:
root # feh --bg-scale ~/path/to/picture.jpg
Source fehbg to set your wallpaper in Openbox
After you have run feh one time, the directory of the image file is stored in ~/.fehbg. This file can be sourced in your .config/openbox/autostart to load the picture instead of typing out feh --bg-scale /picture/location.jpg:
~/.config/openbox/autostart ...
~/.fehbg &
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