Re: New library wallpaper.el pushed to master

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Thu 15 Sep 2022 at 12:28AM -07, Stefan Kangas wrote:

> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>
>> Here on Sway on Wayland, Emacs would have to do the equivalent of this:
>>
>>   pkill swaybg && swaybg --image foo.png --output "*" & disown
>
> There is currently no support for running more than one command; the
> assumption is that only one command is needed.  Perhaps this is not true
> in the general case, so maybe that should be changed.
>
> It also sounds somewhat dangerous to run the equivalent of "pkill
> swaybg", so would we want to prompt the user before doing that?

Yeah.  Perhaps the 'wbg' command Felix mentioned already takes care of
killing off any other process that is trying to display wallpaper?  If
so, that'd be preferable.

-- 
Sean Whitton