Wallpaper issues under openbox

I know how to set the wallpaper (in a number of ways, even). That's not the issue.
I'm running Arch under VirtualBox, with the guest additions installed. This allows magically setting the resolution when I change the size of the virtual screen. Unfortunately, this does not update my wallpaper's aspect ratio, so the wallpaper tiles rather than zooming to fit. How do I fix this?
For reference, I'm setting my wallpaper with
feh --bg-max ~/wallpaper-377161.jpg
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, and thanks in advance.

Hi guys, this is my first post here so be nice!
I've been agonising over this small detail for a few days now, whilst trivial I NEED feh to reapply my wallpaper when I resize my VB window - as Deltadesu mentions above feh applies the wallpaper based on the 'current' screen size, so any resolution > than the current resolution, the wallpaper tiles.
I have read about calling feh from VBoxRandR.sh - but as this doesnt exist any longer I'm stuck!
Cheers in advance :]

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VLC really looks ugly under Openbox (Qt related I think)

Hello Archers
I'm still trying Openbox, and I've met a problem with VLC media player
It really looks UGLY under Openbox, I've searched a little bid, and found that VLC use Qt
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Last edited by Lowra (2010-06-05 09:15:14)

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Setting wallpaper/bmpanel in openbox? [SOLVED]

I am on my first succesful HD install of Arch wirh Openbox right now and I have been documenting some of the things that are giving me issues. If you are curious about how I went about with my installation you can check this thread out:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=76315
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I do have composting available as I have my nvidia drivers installed and i checked that it is working in the terminal, but I am at a loss as to why they arent working correctly. I have checked the documentation for this and found it a little lacking? Anyone know where to go from here?
Last edited by beatepix (2009-07-21 00:38:53)

Ghost1227 wrote:
Don't know bmpanel (never liked it myself), but the
problem with nitrogen is that in order to set wallpaper from the
commandline you have to include a switch. Chose whichever of the
following best suits the image in question.
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/media/vault/Wallpapers/107320-Tranquility-1680.jpg &
nitrogen --set-centered
/media/vault/Wallpapers/107320-Tranquility-1680.jpg &
nitrogen --set-scaled
/media/vault/Wallpapers/107320-Tranquility-1680.jpg &
nitrogen --set-tiled
/media/vault/Wallpapers/107320-Tranquility-1680.jpg &
Or, if you rely on nitrogen's GUI wallpaper interface, you can just
use the following:
nitrogen --restore &
This will set the desktop to the last image you selected via the GUI
interface.
Then if you want to get fancy, you can add a menu item to your openbox
menu to launch the nitrogen selector:
<item label="Wallpaper">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>nitrogen ~/wallpaper</execute>
</action>
</item>
Also never used bmpanel, so can't be of help there. Tint2 and pypanel
both have nice transparency.

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