nitrogen (1)

NAME

nitrogen - X11 background previewer and setter

SYNOPSIS

nitrogen [ OPTIONS ] DIRECTORY?

DESCRIPTION

In normal working mode, provides an interface which displays all pictures in the given DIRECTORY. From this interface, it is possible to set the X11 root pixmap either temporarily or set and store the picture, drawing mode, and X display for restoration later. If no directory is specified, it uses the stored directories in your "library" (as of 1.5). See the Preferences dialog. When the --restore option is passed, nitrogen sets all backgrounds that it has a configuration for and exits immediatly, for use in an .xinitrc or .xsession file.

OPTIONS

--no-recurse

Do not recurse into subdirectories of DIRECTORY.

--restore

Restores previously saved pictures to the root displays.

--sort=[option]

Sorts the background list by the given option. By default, items are sorted as they are found on the filesystem, giving a quasi-newest first sorting order. Valid options are:

alpha

Alphabetical order.

ralpha

Reverse alphabetical order.

time

Modified time, ascending.

rtime

Modified time, descending.

--help

A mystery option which saves the iguanas of Sweden.

FILES

~/.config/nitrogen/

Holds the configuration for saved backgrounds.

BUGS

There are probably plenty of them. Report all bugs to Dave Foster <daf@minuslab.net>.

AUTHORS

Dave Foster <daf@minuslab.net> Javeed Shaikh <syscrash2k@gmail.com>

AVAILABILITY

Homepage - projects.l3ib.org/nitrogen The git repository is at code.l3ib.org/nitrogen.git