Xfce System Wide default backdrop

Jan Vansteenkiste xfce at buitendezone.be
Fri Oct 6 10:39:29 CEST 2006


Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> Hmmh, as far as I can tell, there is no system-wide setting for
> xfdesktop default background. It's #define'd in
> common/xfdesktop-common.h and then a desktop.xml is created in
> $HOME/.config/xfce4/mcs_settings/desktop.xml when xfdesktop4 is first
> run.
> 
> Did I miss something, or the only way to change the default backdrop is
> to do it at build-time ?
> 
> Regards,
You can put system wide settings in /etc/xdg/*

so, make /etc/xdg/xfce4/mcs_settings and copy your desktop.xml file to
there.

Should do the job just fine

Cheerz

Jan



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