From ae45f7619179e52a530b3912a41199b7cccd7e7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Findeisen <you@hanez.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 03:42:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] setting the background image in rc.lua now. if not set the
 default wil be used

---
 .config/awesome/rc.lua                 | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 .config/awesome/themes/hanez/theme.lua |  9 +--------
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.config/awesome/rc.lua b/.config/awesome/rc.lua
index 2dd22cc1..6b0e0a26 100644
--- a/.config/awesome/rc.lua
+++ b/.config/awesome/rc.lua
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ local menubar = require("menubar")
 require('naughty')
 vicious = require("vicious")
 
+
+function file_exists(name)
+       local f=io.open(name,"r")
+          if f~=nil then io.close(f) return true else return false end 
+      end
+
+
 -- {{{ Error handling
 -- Check if awesome encountered an error during startup and fell back to
 -- another config (This code will only ever execute for the fallback config)
@@ -42,6 +49,17 @@ end
 -- Themes define colours, icons, font and wallpapers.
 beautiful.init(".config/awesome/themes/hanez/theme.lua")
 
+-- I Don't add wallpapers to the theme because of licensing issues; you need to set
+-- this yourself. I recommend to symlink your wallpaper image to
+-- ~/images/background.png. I will change this at some time to become more
+-- flexible. If you do not add this symlink or file, the awesome's default background 
+-- image will be used.
+name = os.getenv("HOME").."/images/background.png"
+if file_exists(name) then 
+    beautiful.wallpaper = name  
+end
+
+
 -- This is used later as the default terminal and editor to run.
 terminal = "uxterm -bg black -fg grey -sb -leftbar -si -bc -cr orange"
 editor = "/usr/bin/vim"
diff --git a/.config/awesome/themes/hanez/theme.lua b/.config/awesome/themes/hanez/theme.lua
index 359efbe3..aa2355f5 100644
--- a/.config/awesome/themes/hanez/theme.lua
+++ b/.config/awesome/themes/hanez/theme.lua
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 -------------------------
 -- Hanez awesome theme --
 -------------------------
-function file_exists(name)
-   local f=io.open(name,"r")
-   if f~=nil then io.close(f) return true else return false end
-end
-
 theme = {}
 
 theme.font          = "sans 8"
@@ -82,9 +77,7 @@ theme.titlebar_maximized_button_focus_inactive  = "~/.config/awesome/themes/hane
 theme.titlebar_maximized_button_normal_active = "~/.config/awesome/themes/hanez/titlebar/maximized_normal_active.png"
 theme.titlebar_maximized_button_focus_active  = "~/.config/awesome/themes/hanez/titlebar/maximized_focus_active.png"
 
--- I Don't add wallpapers to the repo because of licensing issues; you need to set
--- this yourself.
-theme.wallpaper = "~/images/background.jpg"
+theme.wallpaper = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/background.png"
 
 -- You can use your own layout icons like this:
 theme.layout_fairh = "~/.config/awesome/themes/hanez/layouts/fairhw.png"