Re: Desktop Background

["Paul Cooper" <pgc ucecom com>]

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 16:29, David McWilliams wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm using Red Hat 9 (Shrike). On earlier versions of Red Hat, I used to
> use a home made sh script that would go a retrieve an image from a
> webcam, and display it on the root window using Imagemagick's 'display'
> utility.  I switched off the Gnome background from within Nautilus,
> under 'Edit... Preferences... Desktop & Trash... Use Nautilus to draw
> the desktop & Use your home folder to draw the desktop'.
> 
> Now I am using RH9, with Gnome 2.2, of course, these mneu picks have
> now gone. Anyone any idea how I can get my root window back.

Maybe this isn't quite the answer you're after but you can set the
background from the command line with these two commands,

gconftool-2 --type=string --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_options wallpaper

gconftool-2 --type=string --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /full/path/to/image.jpg

in the first command you can substitute wallpaper for centered, scaled,
stretched. Maybe you could use this in the script instead of
imagemagick?

Paul

> Thanks in advance,
> 
> David
> 
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