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

[Martin Owens <doctormo gmail com>]

On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 11:23 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> You should really do this in your session.
> There is no particular need to change your background when you are not
> logged in, right ?

It's an outstanding issue with gnome that they broke the hell out of
gconf and/or forgot to implement a session crond.

I fixed (read: hacked) the problem out of gnome-wallchanger project by
creating a symlink in ~/.gnome2/ which gets updated by the cron job.

The advice to create a specialised daemon to do it in session was deemed
to be wasteful of resources and not principally utilising existing, well
tested technologies.

Martin,