Changing the backdrop

Iain Scurrah iscurrah at fmail.co.uk
Tue Nov 8 23:22:41 CET 2005


On Tuesday 08 November 2005 20.18, Erik Harrison wrote:
> On 11/8/05, Iain Scurrah <iscurrah at fmail.co.uk> wrote:
> > One hangover from my KDE days though, is a desire to change my backdrop
> > regularly...
> >
> > Currently I've got a list of all the photos I want to see sometime as a
> > backdrop and a little script in ~/Desktop/Autostart/change_backdrop.sh
> >
> > The only problem is that it never ends.

> The canonical way to change the backdrop after a given interval is to
> do it in cron. Perhaps this bypasses the problem?

Hi Erik, 

Please tell me how to do this - but I only want want one instance of the 
script to run, and only if I am logged into Xfce.

Cheers,

Iain.



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