xmonad-contrib-0.14: Third party extensions for xmonad

Copyright(c) Anton Pirogov 2014
LicenseBSD3
MaintainerAnton Pirogov <anton.pirogov@gmail.com>
Stabilityunstable
Portabilityunportable
Safe HaskellNone
LanguageHaskell98

XMonad.Hooks.WallpaperSetter

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Description

Log hook which changes the wallpapers depending on visible workspaces.

Synopsis

Usage

This module requires imagemagick and feh to be installed, as these are utilized for the required image transformations and the actual setting of the wallpaper.

This was especially tested with multi-head setups - if you have two monitors and swap the workspaces, the wallpapers will be swapped too, scaled accordingly and rotated if necessary (e.g. if you are using your monitor rotated but only have wide wallpapers).

Add a log hook like this:

myWorkspaces = ["1:main","2:misc","3","4"]
...
main = xmonad $ defaultConfig {
  logHook = wallpaperSetter defWallpaperConf {
                               wallpapers = defWPNames myWorkspaces
                                         <> WallpaperList [("1:main",WallpaperDir "1")]
                            }
  }
...

wallpaperSetter :: WallpaperConf -> X () Source #

Add this to your log hook with the workspace configuration as argument.

data WallpaperConf Source #

Complete wallpaper configuration passed to the hook

Constructors

WallpaperConf 

Fields

data Wallpaper Source #

Represents a wallpaper

Constructors

WallpaperFix FilePath

Single, fixed wallpaper

WallpaperDir FilePath

Random wallpaper from this subdirectory

defWallpaperConf :: WallpaperConf Source #

default configuration. looks in ~/.wallpapers/ for WORKSPACEID.jpg

defWPNames :: [WorkspaceId] -> WallpaperList Source #

returns the default association list (maps name to name.jpg, non-alphanumeric characters are omitted)

TODO

  • implement a kind of image cache like in wallpaperd to remove or at least reduce the lag
  • find out how to merge multiple images from stdin to one (-> for caching all pictures in memory)