wallpapers

Wallpapers

This page shows how to setup your wallpaper with Qtile.

• Natively
• With nitrogen
• With feh
• With the wallpaper widget

Native setting

Wallpapers can be set in your config file as parameters to Screen instances:

screens = [
    Screen(
            wallpaper='~/path/to/my/wallpaper.png',
            wallpaper_mode='fill',
        )
]

Available wallpaper modes:

• None (default): The image will be placed at the screens origin and retain its own dimensions.
• 'fill': The image will be centred on the screen and resized to fill it while maintaining aspect ratio.
• 'stretch': The image is stretched to fit all of it into the screen.

Nitrogen

In your autostart script:

nitrogen --restore &

Feh

In your autostart script:

feh --bg-scale ~/path/to/your/wallpaper.jpg &

Wallpaper widget

Qtile provides a Wallpaper widget.