FEH

PRIMARY CATEGORY → DESKTOP SETUP

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 →

~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc

# Feh Binary Launch
/usr/bin/feh --bg-fill /home/al3xbb/Desktop/4l3xBB/Wallpapers/Fondo.jpg &

Wallpaper’s Directory → ~/Desktop/USER/Wallpapers/

More info here

Project Documentation Page

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 →

$ man feh # :)

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Installation

CAUTION

First, see the bspwm and the sxhkd’s installation before proceeding with this one related to feh

There are some dependencies that are needed in the following installation steps

apt install -y -- feh

That’s it

$ command -V feh
feh is /usr/bin/feh

IMPORTANT

Installation can be done either through the OS package manager or via the git clone command

Note 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 the feh’s official Github repository

As 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 →

mkdir -p ~/Desktop/4l3xBB/Wallpapers
mv ~/Downloads/Image.jpg !$

To set it as the Desktop Wallpaper →

feh --bg-fill /home/al3xbb/Desktop/4l3xBB/Wallpapers/Fondo.jpg

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

~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc

/usr/bin/feh --bg-fill /home/al3xbb/Desktop/4l3xBB/Wallpapers/Fondo.jpg &