Re: What is command line for backgrounds in Gnome2.2?

[Håvard Wigtil <havardw stud ntnu no>]

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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