Commit b5c909ca authored by Birte Kristina Friesel's avatar Birte Kristina Friesel
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feh(1): 'exec' is not required for .fehbg 

While at it: Add some notes about .fehbg in general and the fact that it is
an executable shell script now.
parent aa0f1e8d

man/feh.pre

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@@ -766,12 +766,17 @@ be printed. 
.Nm

can also be used as a background setter.  Unless you pass the

.Cm --no-fehbg

option, it will store the command line necessary to set the background in

.Pa ~/.fehbg ,

so to have your background restored every time you start X, you can add

.Qq exec ~/.fehbg &

option, it will write a script to set the current background to

.Pa ~/.fehbg .

So to have your background restored every time you start X, you can add

.Qq sh ~/.fehbg &

to your X startup script

.Pq like Pa ~/.xinitrc .

.Pq such as Pa ~/.xinitrc .

As of

.Nm

2.13, this script is executable, so

.Qq ~/.fehbg &

will work as well.

.

.Pp

.