I am attempting to make the desktop background in gnome change automatically to a random image from a set folder. I know the command I need is
gconftool-2 --type=string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /full/path/to/image/file I have worked this into a basic shell script: time=$1 # time to wait between changing the background in secs while [ : ] do for filepath in `cat list` # list is a list of all files in the backgrounds directory and is the only other non-image file in the folder do echo $filepath # for debug gconftool-2 --type=string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename “$filepath” sleep $time done done however allthough this sets the value (I can see it in the xml configuration file with emacs) the background simply goes to the set colour not the image. is there another value I need to get the background as an image? or is there something wrong with my script? all help appreciated. Jacob Mansfield Programmer
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