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Introduction

Nitrogen is a fast and lightweight desktop background browser and setter for X windows.

Installation

Nitrogen is available from the standard repositories:

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# pacman-g2 -S nitrogen


Usage

Run nitrogen --help for full details. The following examples will get you started:

Setting wallpaper

To view and set the desired wallpaper from a specific directory recursively, run:

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$ nitrogen /path/to/image/directory/

To view and set the desired wallpaper from a specific directory non-recursively, run:

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$ nitrogen --no-recurse /path/to/image/directory/

Restoring wallpaper

To restore the chosen wallpaper during subsequent sessions, add the following to your startup file (e.g. ~/.xinitrc, ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh, etc.):

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$ nitrogen --restore &
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