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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Installation 3 Usage 3.1 Setting wallpaper 3.2 Restoring wallpaper

[edit] Introduction

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

[edit] Installation

Nitrogen is available from the standard repositories:

# pacman -S nitrogen

[edit] Usage

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

[edit] Setting wallpaper

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

$ nitrogen /path/to/image/directory/

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

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

[edit] 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.):

nitrogen --restore &