AwesomeWM wallpaper change

Question

When I am using Awesome-WM under Linux Mint 13 "Maya" MATE, sometimes I need to open the File Manager "Caja". But when I launch caja, the wallpaper changes to the one I set under MATE instead of the one in rc.lua. I have tried

sudo gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background draw-background false

but it seems useless.

How can I keep my settings under awesome-wm? Or I should set the 2 backgrounds the same?

Answer 1

You could try setting your wallpaper using feh. Create a .fehbg file in your $HOME and put this in:

feh --bg-scale '/path/to/wallpaper.jpg'

..then save it.

Then in your autostart script just add sh $HOME/.fehbg & then try restarting your DE. If it still persists after opening Caja, then I am not sure about that since I am totally unfamiliar with Caja, rather, I am not familiar with MATE at all.

Answer 2

I think what's happening is that caja is set to 'manage' your desktop. That means it'll change your wallpaper to the one set in MATE, and probably display desktop icons as well, e.g., Computer, Home, etc. This has always been a problem for me when using alternative window managers on Ubuntu, because nautilus does it as well. With nautilus the behaviour can be turned off using the terminal flag --no-desktop. caja seems to be a descendant of nautilus and a quick Google shows references to the same terminal option for it as well. So I suggest you try

caja --no-desktop

and see if that works for you.