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I want to change the wallpaper of xmonad from the command line.

How can I do this?

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Reset to default
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You can use feh:

feh --bg-scale /path/to/wallpaper

You can also set up bash scripts to change wallpaper to random one every X minutes(I use it with feh), get random wallpaper on each boot, etc. The Arch wiki explains it nicely.

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  • I did it, but it isn't saved. When I reboot, the wallpaper is previous one. Commented Apr 18, 2016 at 13:06
  • @user53216 That's right. You've got to do this every time, or add it to some init file(either xmonad init file[I don't know xmonad, so I don't know where it is]), or put it in .xinitrc. The second solution is preferable. Commented Apr 18, 2016 at 13:19
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According to this Super User Q&A, you can try:

xloadimage -onroot -fullscreen /path/to/background_image

Or

xpmroot /path/to/background_image

Or, and this should work on pretty much any desktop environment:

feh --bg-fill /path/to/background_image
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You can use xsetroot for simple backgrounds.

For a solid color:

xsetroot -solid black

For a bitmap:

xsetroot -bitmap filename.bmp
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