Nitrogen is not setting the wallpaper when i start i3

Nitrogen is not starting on start of i3, i don't know why.

felipe@ubuntu:~$ cat .xinitrc #!/usr/bin/env bash
exec i3
exec nitrogen --no-startup-id --restore

here is the config

felipe@ubuntu:~$ cat .config/nitrogen/bg-saved.cfg
[:0.0]
file=/home/felipe/Imágenes/images-wallpaper-comics-87590.jpg
mode=4
bgcolor=#000000

here is the other

felipe@ubuntu:~$ cat .config/nitrogen/nitrogen.cfg
[geometry]
posx=0
posy=18
sizex=1916
sizey=1041
[nitrogen]
view=icon
icon_caps=false
dirs=/home/felipe/Imágenes;

I start i3 from lightdm

2 Answers

If you want to start nitrogen via xinitrc you would have to launch it before executing i3, so it would look something like this

#!/bin/bash
nitrogen &
exec i3

Or you could also use i3's config file to autostart nitrogen, just add the following somewhere into you i3 config.

...
exec --no-startup-id nitrogen
...

for i3 users

vim ~/.config/i3/config

then add the line below to your config

exec --no-startup-id nitrogen --restore

omitting --restore will cause the whole nitrogen app to come up instead of the wallpaper