Re: Cooless with feh

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thanks; I will play with this.

On Sun, Sep 13, 2026 at 7:49 PM DTB <trinity@tebibyte.media> wrote:
>
> On Sun Sep 13, 2026 at 1:19 PM MDT, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > How to make a wallpaper appear to be sliding
> > of the screen. In the up/down directions.
>
> Perhaps something like the following sh(1) loop would accomplish
> something similar:
>
> # I have not tried this! You may have to debug.
> sh -ec '
> while :; do
>         pkill feh || true
>         feh --class wallpaper -g +0+$y /path/to/wallpaper.tif
>
>         y=$(echo $y 1 + p | dc) # +1 per round
>         test $y -gt 100 && y=0  # 0-100
>         sleep 5                 # 5s
> done' &
>
> It would have to be running in the background of a window manager
> configured to not manage the feh process with the X class hint
> "wallpaper".
>
> :3 <3 -3