DIfferent bg's across workspaces? Re: What is command line for backgrounds in Gnome2.2?

[Paul E Johnson <pauljohn ku edu>]

Thanks very much for this pointer. It works great. I've written a Perl 
script that changes the background every 30 minutes. It makes computing 
more interesting. I'll gladly post the perl script in case anybody wants 
it. It is very simple.

Now I wonder whether gconftool can send a different image to the 
different workspaces under gnome.  If it could do that, I'd have one 
workspace for forest scenes, one for waterfalls, one for people's faces, 
and so forth. That way, Gnome could completely handle the things that I 
used to count on Window Maker for.

pj


Håvard Wigtil wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 11:04, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> > I have a perl script I use with WindowMaker to change backgrounds every 
> > 20 minutes and it draws backgrounds randomly from a directory structure. 
> >  Since Gnome-2.2 won't cooperate with WindowMaker, I want to use 
> > Gnome-2.2's background command to do it.
> >
> > Can you please tell me what the command should be?
>
>
> Use this  command (on one line ;)
>
> gconftool-2 --set --type=string
> /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /full/path/to/image/file.type



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