Re: Background Doesn't Change via cron(8)

[Shawn H Corey <shawnhcorey gmail com>]

Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 10:06 -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> 
>> * It changes ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/background/%gconf.xml
> 
> oh, god. why are you doing this?
> 
> use gconftool to change the gconf database.
> 
>> Apparently, gconfd-2 is not getting informed of the change.  Its cache
>> still has the old values.  How do I fix this?
> 
> by using the right tool for the job.
> 
> ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
> 

You mean like this?

gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
$WALLPAPERS/${ALIST[$number]}

I am; doesn't work with cron(8).


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