wallpaper

[Enrico Tröger]

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:15:34 -0800, "Brian J. Tarricone"
<bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Luo Hei wrote:
> > 
> > Stephan Arts escribió:
>  >>
> >> Start a cron-job which periodically calls xfdesktop --reload.
>  >
> > Can be done also with an script included in autostarted apps. The
> > big problem with this solution is that when you log out, the script
> > or the cron job still keep trying to run xfdesktop.
> > So, I also join the petition of native multiple wallpaper support.
> 
> Petition?  Heh.  File an enhancement request on Bugzilla.  If I think
> it fits, it'll go in.  If not, it won't.  If someone wants to work up
> a patch (against svn trunk, not 4.4.x), the chances of it getting in
> go up.
I never used the feature of multiple background images but when opening
xfdesktop's settings dialog, there I can define a list of images to be
used. xfdesktop uses randomly one of these images on startup(and on
--reload)?
If so, the requested feature should be quite easy to add. Add a
spinbutton in the preferences dialog to define the timeout between
changing the image and we need a timer(e.g. g_timeout_add()) which calls
then the routine to change background. Maybe I'm missing something
because I didn't look at the code at all but I guess it could be as
easy as this.

But I'm jst wondering why this could be useful ;-). Hmm, maybe I'm just
a bit different because I don't see much of my background image at all
since almost all of my windows are maximized.

Regards,
Enrico

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