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feh

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Registered: 2023-04-04

Posts: 5

Does feh background still work?

Hi there,

I was trying to set a background with feh in a script and it does not work. I saw a few posts containing a successfull feh command a few years back, but was wondering if something changed.

env:
both: feh version 3.9.1 and feh version 3.6.3
xfce 4.16 on Debian install

feh --bg-center --xinerama-index 0 ~/Downloads/fishingguy.jpg
feh --bg-center ~/Downloads/fishingguy.jpg

Does it work for anyone?
Which log files would be the the ones I would investigate this in?

Thanks

Skaperen

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From: right by Jesus, our Saviour

Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 819

Re: Does feh background still work?

i am not getting any success, either.  i have version 3.3.1 on an older xubuntu with libimlib2 1.6.1-1ubuntu0.1.  no output from command on stdout or stderr.  a scan of log files has no clue.  it does write a new ~/.fehbg file (i junked the previous one i had).  no idea what is wrong.  i don't really know what video display technology i have.

feh

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Registered: 2023-04-04

Posts: 5

Re: Does feh background still work?

Hi Skaperen,

Thanks so much for testing this. So definitely an issue  just on my system. A pity, as feh did a good job at putting a background and could manage webp files.