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FEH → Fast and Light Image Viewer
With this tool, images can be displayed on the terminal as kitty does through kitten icat
But, in this setup environment, It is used to manage the Desktop Wallpaper as bspwm cannot do it itself
It has several image display modes and allows the background image to be changed dinamically
feh
is launched by bspwm from the bspwmrc script as follows →
Wallpaper’s Directory → ~/Desktop/USER/Wallpapers/
More info here
As always, all the information needed to handle this tool can be found in its Man Page
INFO
Note that the help panel is not compiled by default as mentioned here
Just see the Man Page linked above or →
Installation
CAUTION
First, see the bspwm’s installation before proceeding with this one related to
feh
There are some dependencies that may be required in the following installation steps
That’s it
IMPORTANT
Installation can be done either through the OS package manager or via the
git clone
commandNote that the default OS repositories listed in
/etc/apt/sources.list
file and in/etc/apt/sources.list.d
directory may have older versions unlike thefeh
’s official Github repositoryAs It is always is desirable to have the latest versions of any package or binary installed, I’d recommend installing them via their Github Repositories
Although, in this case the package’s version installed from the
apt
Package Manager differs only slightly from the github one
Once installed, download the desired image and save it in the following directory →
To set it as the Desktop Wallpaper →
INFO
Note that, as mentioned earlier, the above command has to be implement in the bspwmrc file to set the image as the Desktop Wallpaper automatically