how to set icewm desktop background to color – no image?

[Member schproodle]

Control Center –> choose wallpaper

: there is no option to choose a background color – no image. I want a desktop background solid color.

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Desktop: IceWM 2.9.3 & zzzfm
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[Member schproodle]

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It appears that Antix Wallpaper App sets the background.

(To keep IceWM from setting a background color/image you simply set both options to an empty string:)
Thus
# icewm preferences(1.8.2) – generated by genpref
# Desktop background image(s)
DesktopBackgroundImage=””

# Desktop background color(s)
DesktopBackgroundColor=””

Tried this:
# Desktop background color(s)
DesktopBackgroundColor=”rgb:00/BF/FF”

The background started as dark blue and then the image chosen by the Antix Wallpaper App appears. So, how to get rid of the antix app?

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[Member seaken64]

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https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/wallpaper-tool-not-launching-in-testing-32-bit/

Check out that topic. the answer is in there somewhere. Dave and skidoo helped me sort out how to manipulate the default wallpaper handler.

Seaken64

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by seaken64.

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https://www.antixforum.com/

there is a search box on the right side of that page. Use the Advanced Search to get a little better selection.

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[Member schproodle]

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Thanks Seaken64. I don’t think that I am able to find the answer therein.

I will try to improve my search technique.

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[Member seaken64]

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https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/wallpaper-tool-not-launching-in-testing-32-bit/#post-57473

Here’s the appropriate message by Dave.

Yes; ~/.desktop-session/wallpaper-list.conf and ~/.desktop-session/wallpaper.conf are the files that are modified by the wallpaper app. Then a bash script runs to set the wallpaper at startup (/usr/local/bin/desktop-session-wallpaper). You can modify those configuration files by hand and run desktop-session-wallpaper and exclude using the gui if you wish.

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Try this search string:

wallpaper solid color rox

and restrict the search to Topics only

If I recall, if you are using the Rox-IceWM desktop, you will end up needing to create a tiny pic 1×1 of the color you want, and setting that as your wallpaper. If you like Rox-Filer as your file manager, that is the best option. I prefer/use the zzzfm file manager. I have instructions to do it for that one.

PS: Dave wrote the program, so Seaken’s reply is likely correct, also.

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Control Center –> choose wallpaper
: there is no option to choose a background color – no image. I want a desktop background solid color.

In antiX21 that statement is definitely incorrect. 95% sure in 19.4 same.

Control Center –> choose wallpaper
Use the Background Menu, Set to No Background.
You can then pick a colour after clicking the choose a colour menu bottom left.

[Member schproodle]

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lots fun eh! I had edited some config files but they seem to be returned to default. Now the pylons.jpg image starts with the session, pauses, and exits. Leaving a nice plain grey background.

I had placed some jpg images in /usr/share/wallpaper/ and they worked. I then deleted the ones I added and now the wallpaper app shows the following results roxterm.

$ wallpaper
Exit: The configured wallpaper is either not a file or does not exist.
configured wallpaper: /usr/share/wallpaper/pylons.jpg
/usr/share/wallpaper/pylons.jpg

$ ls -l /usr/share/wallpaper/
total 1364
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 521012 Jul 21 07:25 Flat.png
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 155209 Sep 16 11:24 found-lost-marbles.jpg
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 20 00:20 grub
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 184241 Sep 16 11:19 leaf-hanging.jpg
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 20 00:20 login
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 133154 Dec 18 2020 pylons.jpg
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 86259 Jul 22 05:14 Space.jpg
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 295137 Sep 16 10:55 sunflower.jpg

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by schproodle.

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[Member oops]

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Hello,

Try to créate a file into:
/home/YourUserName/.icewm/prefoverride
… With inside:

# Desktop background color(s)
# DesktopBackgroundColor=””

# Tried this:
# Desktop background color(s)
DesktopBackgroundColor=”rgb:00/BF/FF”

… Then Logout/Login IceWM.

[Member schproodle]

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oops, I don’t understand your instructions. Please clarify – step by step.

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[Member schproodle]

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$ sudo wallpaper
[sudo] password for jack:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/bin/wallpaper”, line 560, in <module>
Var = Var()
File “/usr/local/bin/wallpaper”, line 120, in __init__
with open(conf_user_dir+”desktop-code.”+display, “r”) as f:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/root/.desktop-session/desktop-code.0’

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[Member ModdIt]

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Control Center –> choose wallpaper
Use the Background Menu, Set to No Background.
You can then pick a colour after clicking the choose a colour menu bottom left.

Why not use the tools given by the distro for solid wallpaper.
or
For added to usr/share/wallpaper select the one you want activate it. Finished.

Control Center –> choose wallpaper
: there is no option to choose a background color – Again that claim is rubbish..

[Member schproodle]

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I don’t see an option to set no background.

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Which version of antiX are you using?
Have you fully updated the packages?

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