New desktop

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 18:43, Jonathan Gardner wrote:
> Well, I'm not really one to talk as I don't usually
> mess with this stuff, but it would seem possible to
> create a cron job that reruns xfdesktop at regular
> intervals. 

Yep. Thanks for the suggestion. I never would have thought of it. In
xinitrc:
 
local_xfdesktop > /dev/null &

and script:

#!/bin/csh
loop:
xfdesktop&
sleep 3600
killall xfdesktop
goto loop



regards,

Edscott




> Perhaps someone could add a little gui dialogue into
> the xfdesktop prefs that does just that, but then I
> guess that'd be assuming everyone running Xfce has
> cron. Do they?
> Like I said I don't know an awful lot about that
> process to begin with.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> --- edscott wilson garcia <edscott at prodigy.net.mx>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 15:27, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > 
> > > > 2- When a list of images is used for background,
> > be able to change them
> > > > on a timeout basis instead of only by
> > login/logout
> > > 
> > > hmm, edscott, you are aware that running xfdesktop
> > again will update the
> > > background, aren't you?
> > 
> > Yes. But I would like to be able to set a maximum
> > time for each image
> > and have them change automatically. I usually go 1-2
> > weeks for each
> > session. I can live without this feature, but if
> > implemented I would use
> > it.
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Edscott
> > 
> > > 
> > > > 3- Compatibility with the xfce4 menu.xml
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I do intend to change it a little, adding an
> > <include /> tag to include
> > > other menu files, but otherwise it should stay the
> > same.
> > > 
> > > 	Jasper
> > > 
> > > 
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