:enos: wallpaper / solid_color

[ggg]

Hi there,

I’ve initially chose a wallpaper using the welcome script, but now I just want a solid_color as background, how can I get rid of the current wallpaper?

I’ve set the color #000000
cat ~/.config/sway/config.d/output | grep background

output HDMI-A-1 resolution 3840x2160 pos 0 1080 background #000000 solid_color
output DP-2 resolution 3840x2160 pos 3840 0 background #000000 solid_color
output DP-3 resolution 3840x2160 pos 3840 2160 background #000000 solid_color

I’ve also commented the line in theme
cat ~/.config/sway/config.d/theme | grep -A2 wallpaper

# Set wallpaper:
#exec swaybg -i ~/.config/sway/sway.png

Since that did not worked, I even renamed the file sway.png to something else and reloaded sway. This crashed waybar without removing the wallpaper !

help please

[freebird54]

I know nothing about sway - but why not name your solid colour as sway.png and see what happens?

[eosbtw]

Have you logged out and logged back in (or rebooted)? For some reason, just reloading Sway didn’t work for me.

[ggg]

logging out did it, thx

[eosbtw]

You’re welcome. That had me puzzled for quite some time! Normally, a reload works for most other changes.