Britton Kerin wrote: > I would like to be able to display pictures for my desktop background, > and change them every so often. It seems that gnome doesn't do this, > so I though I'd just do it from a script with xsetbg, but I think for > this to work I need to somehow tell gnome to not do anything to the > X root window. I couldn't figure out how to do this, can anyone tell > me?
Nautilus (the GNOME file manager) is responsible for drawing the desktop. If you definitely want to use xsetbg, you'll need to add the --no-desktop option when nautilus is started; you can do this using gnome-session-properties. One possible drawback of this method is that desktop icons will not be drawn. You can set the desktop background from a script, though, without disabling Nautilus' drawing the desktop, by using gconftool-2: gconftool-2 --type string --set \ /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename \ <image file pathname> One drawback of this method is that it seems to have some sort of flaky relationship with ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml. YMMV, HTH cmr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
