avoid background management

[Don Christensen]

Has anyone given any thought to integrating the functionality of something
like ChBg (http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/chbg/) into xfdesktop4?  Or maybe
it would be easier, having just read the Wed Aug 08 2001 news entry on
that page.  I haven't looked at this in any detail, but hopefully someone
out there is interested enough to see if this could be made to work.

I've included the general discussion list, as it seems more appropriate
to have this discussion there.

-Don

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:13:20PM +0200, angel bosch wrote:
> 
>>i cant believe this is the only way to do it!
>>
> It is.
> 
>>isn't there any hidden-tweaky-rare option to disable this?
>>
> No.
> 
> There are things you can do to manipulate the xfdesktop background. You
> can create an image list and have a script call xfdesktop at a certain
> interval. That will give you a randomly changing background.
> 
> Or you can copy an image to e.g. ~/current_background.png, choose that as
> background and then have a script copy different files to
> ~/current_background.png and run xfdesktop to refresh.
> 
> 	Jasper
>>-- 
>>?ngel bosch
>>abosch at brujulatelecom.com 
>>-------------------------
>>software is like sex
>>is better when its free
> 
> 
> Content-Description: Missatge reenviat - Re: avoid background management
> 
>>Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:38:42 +0530
>>From: Biju Chacko <botsie at xfce.org>
>>To: XFCE4 development list <xfce4-dev at xfce.org>
>>Subject: Re: avoid background management
>>
>>angel bosch wrote:
>>
>>>hi!
>>>
>>>is there any way on 4.2 (i use oscillation debs) to avoid backgrounds
>>>management?
>>>i just wanna use my own scripts to manage background stuff (bsetbg,
>>>xsri, etc) but xfce override my background. so i would like to disable
>>>background at all and do it by myself.
>>
>>Just kill xfdesktop4. You'd lose the desktop menus too.
>>
>>-- b


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Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
djc at cisco.com         Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz, CA
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