Playing with hsetroot

[ChefIronBelly]

This is something I wanted to do instead of using a graphic program, smaller image size, less video memory lets say. YMMV

So I started with a google search to grab and clip.
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Using hsetroot to stick smaller image in the center and add some ambience to feather it in.

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hsetroot -add "#000000" -add "#200000" -gradient 0 -center ~/Pictures/Wallpapers/bbq_desktop.png &

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Not perfect but you get the idea. Solid black worked just as well with that clip, bottom line I will doing this with my own stuff in the future.

Edit: typos and a little insight.

The IIRC the fist number #200000 was the bottom and #00000 was the top the gradient was in degrees 0 = 12 O'clock position.

[dkeg]

That's really quite fantastic. Yeah, hsetroot has some nifty options

[wuxmedia]

clever, thanks Chef!

[DebianJoe]

Wonderfully useful. Thanks for sharing.

[machinebacon]

Thanks for this! Probably you can make the original picture transparent for specific colours (black in this case, using imagemagick because GIMP is bloat) and then overlay it. This would blend then.

[ChefIronBelly]

right on I sould have mentioned you want a transparent background on your image. I tried imagemagick on that one didnt have much luck I have a bloat box with inkscape that I fire up about once a year.

Here is a better example using bacons avatar and the sites colors.

[machinebacon]

Right on, this was the old wallpaper around 1 year ago :)