feh –bg-fill ~/Pictures/Sample_picture.jpg The directory for your image may vary but you already get the point 🙂īut what if you prefer feh loading a random wallpaper from within a directory every time you log in? This is more dramatic and refreshing as you get to enjoy different wallpapers (automatically) without having to change the command manually.īelow is a refined feh command to enable randomization when feh loads up a wallpaper for your current session: feh -randomize -bg-fill ~/Pictures/* Dynamic wallpaper Launch your favorite text editor program and open ~/.profile file.Īdd the following commands on the last line to execute feh when you successfully log in to your account. And now we have a need to automate setting background wallpaper when i3wm starts up. profile is what your computer loads and executes when you successfully log in to your account, so generally speaking you can input more custom commands if you like to automate your work. We’ll be editing a file called .profile in your account’s home directory. I’m considering you already have a login manager program like lightdm, gdm, etc where you enter your username and password to login to your account. Static wallpaperįirst, we’ll see how to set an image as a static wallpaper on i3wm.

If you haven’t installed the program yet, launch the terminal and key in the below command to install feh on your computer.sudo apt install feh I’m assuming you’re following this article on Ubuntu machine or on any Debian-based Linux OS. It is lightweight and command-oriented so it’s not intended for ordinary GUI-savvy users.

Using fehįeh is an image viewing program but it is also used as a wallpaper setting program for our case. Luckily today, you’ll be relieved to know that it’s possible to set wallpapers using a cool utility and lightweight program called feh. A fresh install of this window manager would leave us a black screen and an i3status at the bottom.

Unfortunately, i3wm doesn’t provide a way/tool to set up wallpapers on our beloved computers. I personally use it when I need to fire up virtualization software so my computer will have sufficient RAM for the guest OS. It is used by many geeks who prefer more resources for their computers.

I3wm is a tiling window manager that is powerful and resource efficient.

I3 desktop manager