Set background image in xmonad

Solution 1:

Regarding prior comment from grawity, the correct syntax is actually

xloadimage -onroot -fullscreen <path.to.image>

The advantages over xloadiamge on xpmroot are:

• allows png images
• on Ubuntu, has its own package, rather than bein contained in the larger fvwm package

(sorry if this would be better as a comment on previous answer: I can't add comments)

Solution 2:

I had some trouble with xloadimage (didn't work at all) and xpmroot (only accepts xpms and gimp wrote a strange one that it barfed on), but feh --bg-fill worked wonderfully (thanks to some guys on the arch forum).