Command is not automatically executed ?

[duddy67]

Hi,

I recently removed Pcmanfm and installed Thunar instead.
Everything works fine except I can't setting the desktop wallpaper.

I installed feh to define a wallpaper but each time I restart a
session, the wallpaper jpg image is not loaded and I have a blue background desktop instead.

I put the

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@eval `cat ~/.fehbg` 

line in the /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart file but
it doesn't work. I also tried the

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eval `cat ~/.fehbg` &

line in the /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh
file but it doesn't work neither. (command works if I type it in the terminal).

So why this command is not automatically executed ?

Can someone help me ?

Thanks.

[maces]

Hi,

maybe the script in this post will help you.

maces

[duddy67]

Thanks for your help, but I found a simplest way.
I created a bash script called .wallpaper.sh

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#!/bin/bash
eval `cat /home/login/.fehbg`

then I call this script in the /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart file:

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@/home/login/.wallpaper.sh

and it works!

But I don't why it doesn't if I put:

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@eval `cat /home/login/.fehbg`

directly in the /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart file.
Is the eval command valid in an autostart script ?

Any idea ?

[Marty Jack]

It is the backticks that aren't evaluated in /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart; you are not running a full shell there. It would probably work if you had said sh the command with backticks.

[duddy67]

Mmm, I see.
Thanks for this helpful information.