Wallpaper selector with sxiv

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What it does

It will change my walpaper and colors of my polybar theme and firefox.

What do I use

nitrogen for the wallpaper,
pywal for my color scheme,
pywal for for the colors of firefox.

Walp

I have a script to change everything but without sxiv.
You have to copy this code somewhere in your path, mine is in /usr/local/bin/walp.
You can type echo $PATH to see more options.

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➜  ~ cat $(where walp)
nitrogen --set-scaled "$1"
wal -i "$1"
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sxiv

You can type this command to see the images in your current folder.

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sxiv -t -a *

I’m gonna use this one to select my future walpaper.

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walp $(sxiv -t -a -o ~/Pictures/*)

You have to select the walpaper with the key m and press q to leave.
It’s working well but I was to start it via dmenu because I’m too lazy to type the command.

dmenu

I like the command walp, I will modify it.

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if [ -z $1];
then
       walp $(sxiv -t -a -o ~/Pictures/*)
fi 
nitrogen --set-scaled "$1"
wal -i "$1"
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