wallpaperd is a small application that takes care of setting the background image. wallpaperd was created due to a friend requesting to have different wallpapers on the different workspaces in pekwm. === Features === wallpaperd now supports: * Changing wallpaper on workspace change. * Changing wallpaper every X amount of time. * Changing wallpaper based on a GNOME background.xml file. * Support for specifying centered, zoomed, tiled and fill image modes. * Selecting wallpaper based on workspace number. * Selecting wallpaper based on workspace name. * RANDR support setting the wallpaper on each screen. * RANDR support re-setting the wallpaper on screen resolution changes. * Setting background Atom hint. plans for implementing support for: * RANDR support having per screen wallpapers. === Supported platforms === wallpaperd is known to compile and run on the following platforms: * Ubuntu 10.04 * OpenBSD 4.6 * OS X 10.6 * OpenSolaris 2009.06, both with GCC and Sun Studio compiler. Requires SUNWgnome-common-devel and SUNWxorg-headers packages. Imlib2 is not included in the standard package repository. === Installation === wallpaperd requires: * Xlib, X11 development files. * Imlib2, Image loading and manipulation To install (download, extract, configure, compile and install) execute: $ wget https://projects.pekdon.net/projects/wallpaperd/files/wallpaperd-0.2.1.tar.gz $ tar xvzf wallpaperd-0.2.1.tar.gz $ cd wallpaperd-0.2.1 $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install === Configuration === wallpaperd is configured in ~/.wallpaperd.cfg which is a simple section free ini style configuration file. An example configuration file setting the wallpaper based on workspace name, having special wallpapers for work and www workspaces and a default image named default.jpg: path.search=~/Pictures:~/Pictures/Wallpapers:/usr/share/backgrounds config.mode=NAME wallpaper.default.image=default.jpg wallpaper.default.mode=CENTERED wallpaper.work.image=work.jpg wallpaper.work.mode=ZOOMED wallpaper.www.image=www.jpg wallpaper.www.mode=TILED
