On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:26:54PM -0500, Randolph L. Chrismon wrote:
> Is anyone aware of a program that will automatically change the
> Bluecurve/Gnome wallpaper on some regular schedule? I've tried CHBG but
> it seems unable to actaully change the wallpaper. Interestingly, the RH
> 8.0 documentation says that gqview is able to set the wallpaper using
> ctrl-w or a menu option. That, however, does not work either. In any
> event, I'm looking for an application that will let me select either a
> directory or multiple files then randomly set one of those files as the
> desktop background on some schedule.
>
while true; do
# WALLPAPERS="myfilename.png myotherfilename.png"
WALLPAPERS=`find mywallpaperdir -name "*.png"`
for I in $WALLPAPERS; do
sleep 60
gconftool-2 --type string --set \
/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename $I
done
done
Make the script more elaborate as you see fit...
Havoc
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