Tip: Changing wallpaper in xfce4

[Jakob Breivik Grimstveit]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 04:28, Biju Chacko wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:37:45 +0200
> Jakob Breivik Grimstveit <jakob at grimstveit.no> wrote:
> 
> > * find list of pictures, put them in a file
> > * randomize the list, pick out one of the files
> > * put it in a specific place (where xfce already looks for a
> > wallpaper)* run `xfdesktop` which automatically reloads background
>
> The first three steps aren't really necessary. You can define an image
> list in xfdesktop and it will randomly choose an image from the list
> when you re-run 'xfdesktop'.

That's nearly correct - and I use that solution myself now. /But/ take
notice - the comment at the beginning of the file is indeed significant!

Thus a file like this is valid:

<quote>
# xfce backdrop list
/files/pictures/wallpapers/s/skyline-2.jpg
/files/pictures/wallpapers/s/s_1305_1_01.jpg
[...]
<quote>

... while a file list like this is invalid:

<quote>
/files/pictures/wallpapers/s/skyline-2.jpg
/files/pictures/wallpapers/s/s_1305_1_01.jpg
[...]
<quote>

That's the reason I started producing my solution, actually :-)

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