Re: New library wallpaper.el pushed to master

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Wed 14 Sep 2022 at 03:33PM +08, Po Lu wrote:

> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> My assumption is that $WAYLAND_DISPLAY works similarly (but I've never
>> used Wayland so I have no idea really).
>
> Programs like feh cannot be implemented on Wayland as a matter of
> principle, without protocol extensions provided by wlroots (and
> wlroots-based compositors.)  So the approach of drawing to the desktop
> will not work on, say, GNOME or KDE Wayland.

Here on Sway on Wayland, Emacs would have to do the equivalent of this:

  pkill swaybg && swaybg --image foo.png --output "*" & disown

-- 
Sean Whitton