change the wallpaper choose app preview style

[gitttyyy]

I find @midn8hustlr awesome work with #337,and then I find the better image preview with nsxid. So I want this.

And now mine is like this

Is it change the swichwall.sh? I`m not sure how to change it correctly with nsxid or yad.I find may config nsxid is needed.
Can you share you config? @midn8hustlr 😍

[midn8hustlr]

Yes you are absolutely right. You just need to replace the following line in switchwall.sh

imgpath=$(yad --width 1200 --height 800 --file --title='Choose wallpaper')

with

imgpath=$(nsxiv -r ~/walls -t --alpha-layer -o -b)

Replace the ~/walls directory with the directory where your put you wallpapers in.
On hitting the switchwall keybind, just select the wallpaper and apply using Shift+Q.
Make sure you have nsxiv installed.

sudo pacman -Syu nsxiv

The background of nsxiv is white by default. To change it to dark (or pitch black like me), create a file ~/.Xresources and put the following lines in it.

Xcursor.theme: Bibata-Modern-Classic
*background: #000000
*foreground: #ffffff

Execute on startup or put the following in hypr/hyprland/execs.conf.

xrdb ~/.Xresources

[gitttyyy]

Thank you😍

[midn8hustlr]

@end-4 In fact, what do you think about using an image viewer instead of a file picker for wallpapers?
Ik, its not portable enough, you can only apply wallpapers stored in some specific directory.
I am also trying to find a wayland equivalent of nsxiv, do you have any minimal image viewer in mind?

[end-4]

i like how you have a grid layout with previews. but not being able to select pictures outside of a specific location isn't that great.
so i wanna find something else.
or figure out how to use grid layout in yad...

[midn8hustlr]

Actually 'nsxiv -r' is recursive
So you can select multiple directories to search from and it will search all of them till full depth
In my walls directory, I have all my wallpapers in subdirectories
However, once you set directories in the script, you cannot go up those directories