fbsetbg-gtkmm - frontend for fbsetbg, the fluxbox background setter William (BJ) Blair III 10/04/16
Add images to choose from by pressing the 'Add Directory' button. You can also set fbsetbg options by selecting from Fullscreen, Centered, Tiled, and Aspect; which represent the -f, -c, -t, and -a options respectively. You can either double click on an image to set it or press the 'Set Background' button. An rc file is stored in ~/.fbsetbg-gtkmm-dirlist, and you can add directories to get images from in there.
On Archlinux, fbsetbg gave me a couple of errors at first: xmessage: command not found <-- solution: install xorg-xmessage
And, because fbsetbg is a wrapper, you need one of fluxbox's supported tools to actually set the wallpaper; it suggests installing esetroot, feh, or wmsetbg. Since feh is the only one of these currently contained in Arch's repos, install that and you should be fine.
I personally made a directory ~/.fluxbox/applications (not to be confused with the 'apps' file), and copied the binary there, then added it to my menu file; but you could run the program from anywhere
To add it to your menu, create an entry similar to this somewhere in ~/.fluxbox/menu:
...
[exec] (Change Background) {/PATH/TO/BINARY} </path/to/icon>
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That's it!
to compile fbsetbg-gtk yourself, you will need g++, make, and gtk3 these can be installed on Debian/Ubuntu-ish systems with:
sudo apt-get install g++
sudo apt-get install make
sudo apt-get install libgtkmm-3.0-dev
sudo apt-get install libatspi2.0-dev
sudo ldconfig
then compile with:
make
In the directory you're reading this README from This will result in a binary in this same root directory
Enjoy! :)
This software is licensed under the GNU GPL, which can be read in the file COPYING in this current directory.