Re: Timelapsed backgrounds

[Jack Spaar <jspaar users sourceforge net>]

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:09:49 -0700, Ryan Paul wrote:

>> Here is a slightly extreme idea. How about a dbus interface for
>> changing the background? I guess all it should take is a path to an
>> image and fade the background to it.
> 
> It's already trivially easy to change the desktop image with GConf. A
> D-Bus interface wouldn't really make it any easier.
> 
>> I actually thought about this the other day as I wanted to have my IM
>> application change the background to the person I'm talking to. I like
>> pictures of family and friends as my background but I just never get
>> around to changing it.
> 
> Interesting idea. It took me about five minutes to implement with
> Python. ;-) The following script uses D-Bus to detect when a new Pidgin
> window is created and then uses GConf to change the desktop background.
> Just put a file with the screen name of each person in ~/.purple/bg and
> it will work:
> 
[snipped remainder]

When you use this (or any other GConf-based background changer) do you 
see memory leaks in nautilus?  I do with my own script.

--Jack Spaar