Custom background

Biju Chacko biju_chacko at vsnl.net
Fri Sep 26 09:09:24 CEST 2003


On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:35:28 -0400, Robert Kruus wrote:

> 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....

two nit-picks:

1. Instead of using 'sleep' why not use a cron job?

2. 'pkill -USR1 xfdesktop' looks cleaner to me.

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