Custom background

[Robert Kruus]

It is rumored that on Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:39:57 -0400
Yan Seiner <yan at cardinalengineering.com> wrote:

> First of all, WOW!  I've just installed xfce rc4, and it is
> fast-fast-fast.  Visibly faster than Ximian XD2, and lots less resource
> hungry to boot.
> 
> One question:
> 
> Is it possible to have a changing background?  I download live pics from
> US National Parks and use xloadimage to display them in the root
> window.  This works fine in gnome once I disable nautilus, but it does
> not work at all in xfce.  Is it possible to have a live background?
> 
> In other words, xloadimage -onroot $IMAGE doesn't have any effect at
> all.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Yan
> 
If you are using xfdesktop, I run put this script in the autostart folder:

#!/bin/bash
while test "$DISPLAY" != ""
do
 kill -USR1 `pgrep xfdesktop`
 sleep 1h
done
exit 0

Just make sure you have a list of images in your home directory created through
settings--backdrop.
You can change the time to be anything you want....