dylanaraps/pywal

Windows wallpaper

Davido264 opened this issue · 1 comments

Davido264 commented

Hi there, I was working with the pywal module to make a plugin for another app, and i found that (at least in my pc) SystemParametersInfoA doesn't work, but SystemParametersInfoW does. My pc es 64 bit architecture, and acording to the logic in pywal.wallpaper.set_win_wallpaper(), SystemParametersInfoA should work. I'm not confident enough to make a pull request deleting that if statement (although it is simple lol).
I think I am doing something wrong or is an isolated case, so I mainly invite to research over this case

Gremious commented

The issue was not that you're supposed to use SystemParametersInfoW, it was that SystemParametersInfoA was passed the image path string in the wrong format :)

(In fact, as far as I saw, SystemParametersInfoA supposedly just re-encodes the string and calls SystemParametersInfoW?)

I have opened a PR which fixed the issue for me on Win 11: #708