Bad interaction with BSPWM.

[lordaris]

Using wal -i <path to images directory> restarts BSPWM and doesn't change the background

[eylles]

welp, not so much of a bad interaction iirc it restarts bspwm to apply the generated colors (for window borders if i'm not mistaken) you can always pass wal the -e flag to skip reloading bspwm/polybar/gtk2/xrdb.

On the background, how do you set your wallpaper tho? if you still use arcolinux do you set it with nitrogen, variety or feh?

[guillaumeboehm]

Works just fine for me, sets the background and reloads bspwm. @eylles is probably on the right track.

[lordaris]

Hello, eylles! Thank you for the prompt reply!

I'm still using Arcoliunux, with variety to set the wallpaper, and a key binding to executewal -i <path to images>. It used to work well, but after some time, as I said, it started restarting BSPWM and not changing the background. I replaced your pywal with the regular one and it works well. Anyways, I'll try yours again and see what happens.

[eylles]

with regular pywal you mean the one from pip right?

yeh that version doesn't got this function

pywal16/pywal/reload.py

Lines 51 to 54 in 7b09708

	def bspwm():
	"""Reload bspwm colors."""
	if shutil.which("bspc") and util.get_pid("bspwm"):
	util.disown(["bspc", "wm", "-r"])

meanwhile pywal16 got a couple extra functions to set wallpapers, we can always roll out a new one to explicitly deal with variety.
for reference the function in pywal16 is this

pywal16/pywal/wallpaper.py

Lines 60 to 88 in 7b09708

	def set_wm_wallpaper(img):
	"""Set the wallpaper for non desktop environments."""
	if shutil.which("feh"):
	util.disown(["feh", "--bg-fill", img])
	elif shutil.which("xwallpaper"):
	util.disown(["xwallpaper", "--zoom", img])
	elif shutil.which("hsetroot"):
	util.disown(["hsetroot", "-fill", img])
	elif shutil.which("nitrogen"):
	util.disown(["nitrogen", "--set-zoom-fill", img])
	elif shutil.which("bgs"):
	util.disown(["bgs", "-z", img])
	elif shutil.which("hsetroot"):
	util.disown(["hsetroot", "-fill", img])
	elif shutil.which("habak"):
	util.disown(["habak", "-mS", img])
	elif shutil.which("display"):
	util.disown(["display", "-backdrop", "-window", "root", img])
	else:
	logging.error("No wallpaper setter found.")
	return

[eylles]

ah wait, in your system is variety using feh as the actual bg setter?

[eylles]

hmmm i'm not sure but this could be a wrong interaction with either feh or nitrogen.