Re: how the wallpaper is displayed???

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 11:00 +0800, Wang Qiang wrote:
> i'm using gnome 2.6 desktop environment
> my problem is how the wallpaper is displayed?

A better place for this question is gnome-devel-list.

> what i know right now:
> 1.I read the gnome-background-properties,it set the 
> wallpapers that will be displayed on the desktop
> 
> 2.gnome-background-properties sets the wallpaper info in 
> $home/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml and 
> $home/.gconf/desktop/gnome/background/%gconf.xml
> 
> 3.as i imagine,i think the wallpaper is displayed under the 
> fllowing steps:
>     a. the gnome-background-properties set the wallpaper 
> info in the 2 xml files
>     b. gconfd notify "some program" to read the 2 newly 
> written xml files to get the wallpaper info and display it.
> 
> question:
> i'm not sure of the steps above,is it really that way?
> and i want to know what the program is in step b

I think that would be gnome-settings-daemon.

  Federico