[solve] change desktop wallpaper!

hello,
im using openbox and i added my .fehbg to my autostart file in the openbox folder. i had the problem, that some other instance is changing the bnackground after the autostart file, so my preferred picture only stayed for 1 second. for now i solved this by adding a sleep function, so that the execution of ~/.fehbg is after the influence of the other instance. but id like to solve this in a wy, that doesnt make my desktop background jump around at the startup!
lizzy
Last edited by caravanlizzy (2014-06-02 20:33:49)

my autostarts content is:
#(sleep 3 && /usr/bin/nm-applet --sm-disable) &
tint2 &
volumeicon &
hsetroot -fill /usr/share/wallpapers/nightsky.jpg &
#clipit &
conky &
sleep 2 && sh .fehbg &
# Enable as required
#xbacklight -set 100 &
#/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=1 &
#xxkb &
#spacefm -d &
#setxkbmap gb &
im starting via login-manager.
uname output is:
Linux arch 3.14.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 13 16:44:54 CEST 2014 i686 GNU/Linux
and
pacman -Qi openbox
Name : openbox
Version : 3.5.2-6
Beschreibung : Highly configurable and lightweight X11 window manager
Architektur : i686
URL : http://openbox.org
Lizenzen : GPL
Gruppen : lxde
Stellt bereit : Nichts
Hängt ab von : startup-notification libxml2 libxinerama libxrandr
libxcursor pango imlib2 librsvg
Optionale Abhängigkeiten: kdebase-workspace: for the KDE/Openbox xsession
python2-xdg: for the openbox-xdg-autostart
script[Installiert]
Benötigt von : obconf obmenu-generator openbox-themes
Optional für: Nichts
Konflikt mit : Nichts
Ersetzt : Nichts
Installationsgröße: 1184,00 KiB
Packer : Bartłomiej Piotrowski <[email protected]>
Erstellt am : Sa 26 Okt 2013 10:18:36 EDT
Installiert am : Di 20 Mai 2014 04:26:45 EDT
Installationsgrund : Ausdrücklich installiert
Installations-Skript : Nein
Verifiziert durch: Signatur
my system is german, but i guess you still understand the pacman -Qi!
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