command line to change wallpaper

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Op vr 24-10-2003, om 12:56 schreef Hayden Stefan:
> i have xplanet and i want to refresh the wallpaper
> every 30min.
> 
> running the xfdesktop command line fails to run by
> cron and give this error:
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> 
> do you know a command line to refresh the wallpaper
> other than xfdesktop?
> 

Cron doesn't know your X environment, so that doesn't work.

You could make a script that you run when X is started. Something like
this:

===

#!/bin/sh

while true
do
  sleep 5
  xfdesktop || break
done

===

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