A tiny companion plugin for the Bureau Obsidian theme: point-and-click local wallpapers and new-tab images, no base64, no manual file editing.
Bureau can show a wallpaper behind the workspace and an image on the New Tab / empty pane, fed by the CSS variables --bu-wallpaper-snippet and --bu-new-tab-image. Pure CSS, though, can't point at a vault file by path — Obsidian serves vault files over a per-install app://<token>/… URL that only JavaScript can mint, the legacy app://local/… shortcut no longer resolves, and relative paths don't resolve inside injected snippet styles. The no-plugin workaround is to embed the image as a base64 data URI, which most people won't want to do by hand.
This plugin does it for you, for both of Bureau's image slots — the workspace wallpaper and the new-tab / empty-pane image. Pick any image in your vault and it sets the matching variable (--bu-wallpaper-snippet / --bu-new-tab-image) to a live resource path (getResourcePath()), re-minted every session — so there's no encoding step and nothing breaks when the token rotates.
Requires the Bureau theme (it sets a variable Bureau reads). Bureau works fine without this plugin — this is an optional convenience.
- Right-click any image in the file explorer → Set as Redacted Background or Set as new-tab image, or
- Command palette → Pick wallpaper image / Pick new-tab image (and Clear wallpaper / Clear new-tab image), or
- Settings → Redacted Background → Pick image (or the clear button) for either slot.
Dimming, frosted glass, and new-tab image size stay in Style Settings → Bureau. This plugin only chooses the images.
Each slot has a Show … layer toggle (on by default) that adds Bureau's class (bu-wallpaper / bu-new-tab) so the image displays. Turn it off to flip the matching toggle in Style Settings yourself.
Not in the community store — install via BRAT:
- Install & enable BRAT.
- BRAT → Add beta plugin →
Sonophage/Redacted-Background. - Enable Redacted Background in Community plugins.
See CHANGELOG.md.
MIT