Desktop Backgrounds

[Jack Coates]

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 12:22, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Jeremy Turner wrote:
> > Hi all,
> 
> Hey Jeremy,
> 
> > Anyway, I have googled and tried to look at this lists' archive with not
> > much luck, but I'm trying to find out how to programmatically change the
> > XFCE 4 desktop background.  The only thing I could find in the
> > documentation is to use the Settings box, and that XFCE 4 conforms to
> > the XDesktop (or something) standard.
> > 
> > What I'm doing is I have a script that calls xplanet and then generates
> > a new desktop background every 30 minutes and then sets the new
> > background.  In Gnome, I called gconfd and set a registry value.  I
> > tried a xsetbg command, but that didn't seem to have any effect in XFCE
> > 4.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Here an quick-and-dirty one:
> 
> Say for example you use ~/bg.jpg for the background in the xfdesktop 
> configuration. Now your script should look like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # (remember to set DISPLAY if this is run from cron or similar services)
> #
> # Copy the new wallpaper (generated prior to this in ~/new.jpg)
> cp ~/new.jpg ~/bg.jpg
> 
> # Notify xfdesktop to reload wallpaper
> pkill -USR1 xfdesktop
> 
> 
> That should do the job. (You may need to use killall instead of pkill if your 
> system lacks the pkill command).
> 
> > Jeremy
> 
> Benedikt

killall is a dangerous habit, see if your system has pidof first and
then use kill `pidof myapp`

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