Programmatically changing wallpaper

[Bob Snyder]

On 05/29/2012 09:25 AM, brian wrote:
> On 05/29/2012 11:42 AM, hha4491 wrote:
>> Hi Brian,
>>> Anyone have any ideas?
>> I'm using German, therefore I'm not sure to have the correct English
>> expressions:
>> Under Preferences->Desktop->Background you can activate Picture List.
>> The standar picture list is /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops. I think you
>> can link it to the folder where your wife's pictures are.
> Thanks Hartmut. Yes, I'd got that far, but doing as you suggest just
> seems to pick a random picture each time the desktop is started. Pat
> wants them to change randomly every few minutes. That's what appears
> to be missing in XFCE. I'll take a look in the folder you say and see
> whether there's anything there which suggests I can chance the current
> picture programmatically.
>
>
> Brian.

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Bob S.