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Beautiful background pictures on OpenBSD

Written by Solène, on 20 May 2020.
Tags: #openbsd

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While the title may appear quite strange, the article is about installing a package to have a new random wallpaper everytime you start the X session!

First, you need to install a package named openbsd-backgrounds which is quite large with a size of 144 MB. This package made by Marc Espie contains lot of pictures shot by some OpenBSD developers.

You can automatically set a picture as a background when xenodm start and prompt for your username by uncommenting a few lines in the file /etc/X11/xenodm/Xsetup_0:

Uncomment this part

if test -x /usr/local/bin/openbsd-wallpaper
then
/usr/local/bin/openbsd-wallpaper
fi

The command openbsd-wallpaper will display a different random picture on every screen (if you have multiples screen connected) every time you run it.