nitrogen uploaded to Debian

Posted by Nico Golde in
Wednesday, May 14. 2008

nitrogen

I usually don't blog about uploads to the Debian archive but since I don't know any similar software in Debian I do in this case.
nitrogen is a wallpaper selection and setting tool with both a graphical (with image preview) and text based frontend to set wallpapers and restore them later.
That's nothing special, there are some tools doing that.
But nitrogen also provides great multihead and xinerama support and is the only tool in the archive I know that is able to set different wallpapers to different monitors!

From the description:

nitrogen is a graphical wallpaper utility that can be used in two
modes, browser and recall.
Some of the things to look for in nitrogen are:
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- Multihead and Xinerama support (setting different wallpapers for each monitor)
- Recall mode to restore wallpapers via startup script
- Uses freedesktop.org standard for thumbnails
- Can set GNOME background
- Command line set modes for script usage
- Inotify monitoring of browsed directories

Check it out

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I used to run kdesktop in my Gnome session so I could easily set the same 4x3 image on each monitor. Now I just have a black desktop, but I kind of wish there was a nice way to pull a random photo from my Flickr stream and make it my wallpaper each day.

#1 Ted (Homepage) on 2008-05-15 10:24 (Reply)

I took the source for the .deb and built it for Ubuntu 7.10. It built successfully, but doesn't seem to work on my xinerama setup (running the Nvidia propietary driver).

The wallpaper never changes, and I get black blank areas on the screen where some dialogs are.

Ideas?

#2 WildBill (Homepage) on 2008-05-15 20:25 (Reply)

this seems to be a bug in one of the libraries used by nitrogen. we didnt yet figure out whats exactly causing it :/

#2.1 nion on 2008-05-18 13:26 (Reply)

does it work for you again if you delete ~/.config/nitrogen/bg-saved.cfg?

#2.2 nion on 2008-05-18 17:05 (Reply)

Sweet! I love nitrogen when I'm using Openbox. I was hoping somebody would package it up as I've been too lazy to do so

Thanks.

#3 LaserJock on 2008-05-16 08:41 (Reply)

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