Nitrogen

Categories: DesktopSettings Settings Utility

A background browser and setter for X windows

Nitrogen is a background browser and setter for X windows. It is written in C++ using the gtkmm toolkit. It can be used in two modes: browser and recall. Some of the features are: * Multihead and Xinerama aware. * Recall mode to used via startup script. * Uses freedesktop.org standard for thumbnails. * Can set GNOME background. * Command line set modes for script use. * Inotify monitoring of browse directory. * Lazy loading of thumbnails - conserves memory . * "Automatic" set mode - determines best mode to set an image based on its size. * Display preview images in a tiled icon layout