Background is reset after reboot or logout

[marcentusch]

Hello,
I just finished installing EndeavourOS with I3 and having issue that when i logout or reboot my laptop the background is set back to the default one. I am setting it with the “Choose wallpaper” option in the welcome app. I have also tried doing it manually with the feh package with feh --bg-set ~/Downloads/1.png, and the background is set fine but still resets after logout.

Anyone know what is happening?

[lighttigerXIV]

You can use feh or nitrogen.

[dalto]

Is it possible something in your home directory is owned by root and the change isn’t being allowed to stick due to permissions?

[marcentusch]

I think is not issue with permissions since feh is writing correctly to ~/.fehbg

[pebcak]

Does it work if you put
feh --bg-set ~/Downloads/1.png
into ~/.profile?

Or perhaps:

exec_always --no-startup-id  feh --bg-set ~/Downloads/1.png

/.config/i3/config

[marcentusch]

Adding the feh command to .profile works. But after about 1 second it is reset back to the default wallpaper again. So somewhere else it must be setting the default wallpaper on boot

[pebcak]

Look into your i3 config file.
Look for something like:

# set wallpaper
exec --no-startup-id nitrogen --restore
#exec --no-startup-id feh --bg-fill /usr/share/endeavouros/backgrounds/endeavouros_i3.png

What do you have in there?

[marcentusch]

Alright I looked in ~/config/i3/config and commented out the exec --no-startup-id nitrogen --restore Line. Now it works. Thanks a lot for the help.

So issue was that I was using feh to set wallpaper but nitrogen was restoring to default wallpaper and overwriting the changes.

[pebcak]

Glad you got it sorted out!

And welcome to EnOS’ forum!

[marcentusch]

Thanks!

[Pudge]

Thanks for giving EndeavourOS a try, and welcome to the forum. I hope you enjoy your time here.

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Pudge

[marcentusch]

Thanks, I added a bit more info on what I did and marked as solved