program to change background in gconftool-2

[dreamin fastmail fm]

i have written a perl script to change the background using gconftool-2; 
however, it is not stable due to permissions of use with gconftool-2.

gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename 
\"/home/elie/pics/$dapic\" -t string

works if i shutdown gconfd first.  the error i usually get is that there 
is a read-only value for picture_filename in the begining of my path.
--get-default-source gives /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults

i thought perhaps $HOME/.gconf.path might solve this problem.  is this 
true?

if so, i have not found a sample .gconf.path file to copy from. i looked 
at the gconf-admin site and many others.

i hope to get your help.
thanks.
ps. if my perl program is wanted let me know. it takes a dir, creates an 
array, gets random picture and changes background in a cron once an hour. 
kind of what KDE does on it's own.

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pps. please reply only to dreamin fastmail fm
thanks again.



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