Wallpaper is reset immediately by desktop environment about xwallpaper HOT 3 CLOSED

Yes, it is available across distributions. But it is supposed to be used with window managers like bspwm, cwm, dwm (just to name a few in alphabetical order) which do not modify the root window on their own.

Desktop environments normally do so. Most of them even put another window above the root window so xwallpaper looks like it doesn't work.

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Hi,

xwallpaper is not meant to be used in parallel with a desktop environment which handles the wallpaper by itself. If you have no chance to disable the DE from doing it, xwallpaper will eventually lose.

Besides, why do you want to use xwallpaper with a desktop environment, anyway?

from xwallpaper.

huh.. apparently I understood that xwallpaper is used across distros to apply wallpapers. From your statement, it looks like it is for WM only.

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