Re: Desktop Background

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 16:28, 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.

The preference to remove the desktop window is still there, although not
availible in the user interface. Use gcond-editor or gconf-tool to set
the /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop key to false.

However, to set the background you could also set 
/desktop/gnome/background/wallpaper-filename and related keys. That way
you don't have to lose the desktop functionallity.

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