command line to change wallpaper

[Biju Chacko]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 09:06:01 +0200, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

> Op za 25-10-2003, om 06:44 schreef Jack Coates:
> > ...
> > 
> > xplanet already has its own program for doing this, xplanetbg.
> > 
> > The pertinent bit of information in this whole thread is to turn off
> > xfdesktop.
> > 
> > End of line.
> 
> That never works does it ;-)
> 
> Anyway, just to clarify something, it is possible to do this with
> xfdesktop. The parent post of this thread has the right idea:
> 
> 1) make xplanet write an image to a file periodically (say myimage.jpg)
> 2) choose myimage.jpg as background
> 3) run 'xfdesktop' periodically to refresh the background
> 
> This works fine, just not from cron. That's why I suggested a little
> script, to be run at X startup, that just calls xfdesktop every x
> minutes.

Wouldn't life be much simpler if xfdesktop's pseudo-root-window was transparent?
Then everybody's favourite root pixmap changer would work. Is this practical?

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