Feature request ?

Alexander Samad alex at samad.com.au
Sat Mar 27 11:35:03 CET 2010


On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2010/3/27 Alexander Samad <alex at samad.com.au>
>>
>> Hi
[snip]

> I had like to mention that another way of doing it, which might need less
> resources than a reload action, is to make use of some xfconf voodoo. But
> you had need to make a script and use it as a cron job instead of a simple
> command line. Cron doesn't know about the DBUS address (which is mandatory
> for running xfconf-query), and it usually doesn't have a full PATH like you
> do in your session shell, this is why all of this is done within the script.
> For such a script have a look at http://snipt.org/Hnkh. Save it, make it
> executable (chmod +x ...) and put it in cron like with a line like this:
>
> */15 * * * * ${HOME}/bin/xfdesktop-refresh.sh

done works a treat :)

thanks,

no I have lots of silly photos of my daughter

>
>>
>> Alex
>
> Kind Regards
> --
> Mike
>
>
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