Set background image in xmonad
Regarding prior comment from grawity, the correct syntax is actually
xloadimage -onroot -fullscreen <path.to.image>
The advantages over xloadiamge on xpmroot are:
- allows png images
- on Ubuntu, has its own package, rather than bein contained in the larger fvwm package
(sorry if this would be better as a comment on previous answer: I can't add comments)
I had some trouble with xloadimage
(didn't work at all) and xpmroot
(only accepts xpms and gimp wrote a strange one that it barfed on), but feh --bg-fill
worked wonderfully (thanks to some guys on the arch forum).
Does this command work: xpmroot ~/background.xpm &
? Where background.xpm
is the filename of the image you want to be your background.