Wallpapers

The antergos-wallpapers package provides default wallpapers for the live session and installed system.

Current wallpaper

GNOME Adwaita Morning (adwaita-morning.webp) — 7680×4320, CC BY-SA 3.0 by Jakub Steiner / GNOME Project.

Installation paths

Path Purpose
/usr/share/wallpapers/antergos-wallpaper/ KDE wallpaper picker (requires metadata.desktop)
/usr/share/backgrounds/antergos/ Other DEs / fallback

How it appears in KDE

KDE’s wallpaper picker scans /usr/share/wallpapers/ for directories containing a metadata.desktop file. The metadata.desktop format:

[Wallpaper]
name=Antergos NeXT
filename=adwaita-morning.webp

Set on first login

Since Plasma overwrites /etc/skel/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc on first login, the wallpaper is applied via a one-shot autostart script:

  1. /usr/local/bin/set-antergos-wallpaper.sh — runs plasma-apply-wallpaperimage, creates marker file ~/.config/antergos-wallpaper-set
  2. ~/.config/autostart/antergos-wallpaper.desktop — calls the script with X-KDE-autostart-phase=2

The marker file prevents the script from running on subsequent logins.

Customizing

To replace the wallpaper, update:

  • packages/antergos-wallpapers/PKGBUILD (source + checksum)
  • packages/antergos-wallpapers/adwaita-morning.webp
  • packages/antergos-wallpapers/metadata.desktop (if changing name)