feh-blur-wallpaper
kiddae's fork : Blur your desktop wallpaper when windows are open (Linux)
Blurs your desktop wallpaper when windows are open.
This is a fork, with added support for minimized/activated windows: if you minimize your windows in openbox for example, your wallpaper also blurs!
Runs as a service, blurring any wallpaper set by feh.
Works great with i3wm, but should work with any Linux window manager!
Usage
Run feh-blur. (Tip: optionally, you can pass -d to it to run it in the background.)
# Step 1: run the feh-blur service
$ feh-blur
>> Monitoring changes
feh-blur will now blur any wallpapers set using 'feh'.
>> Found wallpaper
/home/rsc/wallpapers/unsplash.jpg
Generating blurred images... done.Set a wallpaper using feh. You can do this before starting feh-blur, or while feh-blur is running.
feh --bg-fill "/path/to/yourwallpaper.jpg"
See feh-blur --help for full usage options.
Usage: feh-blur [-v|--verbose]
Options:
-b, --blur N set blur strength to N (4...128, default 32)
--darken N darken image by N (4...100, default 32)
--lighten N lengthen image by N (4...100, default 0)
-c, --uncontrast reduce contrast
--save-image PATH save blurred image to PATH
--no-animate skip fading animation
Daemon options:
-d, --daemon run in background
-s, --stop stop previously-ran daemon
Other options:
-v, --verbose show more messages
-q, --quiet supress messages
Installation
Install feh-blur somewhere. You may also need some dependencies, install them using your Linux distro's appropriate package manager.
# Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S wmctrl graphicsmagick feh
# Ubuntu and alike
sudo apt install wmctrl graphicsmagick fehPrior art
Based on ganifladi/blurme. feh-blur-wallpaper has been written from the ground up, using some parts of blurme as reference.
Thanks
feh-wallpaper-blur © 2019, Rico Sta. Cruz. Released under the MIT License.
Authored and maintained by Rico Sta. Cruz with help from contributors (list).
ricostacruz.com · GitHub @rstacruz · Twitter @rstacruz
