wall-d

A simple and fast wallpaper manager for x

Features:

It supports single (same wall on all available screens), dual and triple (different walls on each monitor)
Uses dmenu or rofi for selecting Mode (single, dual or triple) and options (zoom, tile, center, stretch and no-randr) or (fill, tile, center, scale and no-xinerama) .
Uses sxiv to preview the wallpapers in thumbnail mode.
uses xwallpaper or feh to set the wallpaper.
sxiv window centers in the screen when in floating mode, and respects _.forgorund _.background and *.font settings from .Xresources.
pywal support
betterlockscreen support

Installation:

Install the depencencies:

sxiv
dmenu or rofi
xwallpaper or feh
pywal (optional)
betterlockscreen (optional)

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/ronniedroid/Wall-d.git

then cd into Wall-d then run install.sh

cd Wall-d
./install.sh

or just copy Wall-d to your $HOME/.local/bin/ directory and make sure that it is in your PATH.

Usage:

-h print this help message and exit

-d path/to/your/wallpapers/directory

-r restore last set Wallpaper(s)

-p change colorscheme using pywal (Put wal -R in your autostart script to restore last set colorscheme)

-b change betterlockscreen wallpaper too.

-l Only change Betterlockscreen wallpaper.

-n Choose a randome wallpaper(s)

-f Use feh instead of xwallpaper

-R use rofi instead of dmenu

to use Wall-d you must define a wallpapers directory using the -d flag.

Select a mode from the menu and sxiv will open in thumbnail mode. (in case you have only one monitor connected, you will not be prompt to select a mode and sxiv will open directly in single mode)
mark the wallpaper you want to set with with m, then press q to quit sxiv. (In single mode, the last marked wallpaper will be used. In dual mode, the last two marked wallpapers will be used. The before-last will be set on Monitor1 and the last will be set on Monitor2 and same with triple mode)
select an option from the menu.
done

to restore your last set wallpaper(s) use the -r flag. put Wall-d -r in your autostart script. If you run Wall-d with the -f flag, then you should put Wall-d -f -r in your autostart script.

sxiv usage:

hjkl to navigate.
Return: toggle between thumbnail and image mode.
m: to mark an picture in thumbnail mode.
b: show details bar about current picture.
f: toggle fullscreen mode.
q: to exit.

If anyone has suggestions or can contribute to make the script even better, you are welcome to give your feedback or send a pole request.