Re: FR: random wallpaper changer

[Petri Kanerva <petri kanerva surfeu fi>]

On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 10:15, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 10:56, Petri Kanerva wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 07:22, Sridhar R wrote:
> > > Petri Kanerva wrote....
> > > {
> > > And why code this functionality into nautilus? What
> > > about users that
> > > don't use nautilus, but still want this functionality?
> > > A separate tool is best
> > > }
> > > 
> > > But GNOME uses nautilus for the desktop, hence it
> > > would be good if this feature is intergrated into
> > > GNOME (or equally Nautilus)
> > 
> > 
> > FYI Gnome uses gnome-desktop for the desktop. If nautilus is set up to
> > draw the desktop, it just copies the image that is shown on desktop by
> > gnome-desktop, and draws it's own desktop (the one with the icons) on
> > top of the "real" desktop. Even without Nautilus running, you'd have a
> > beautifull wallpaper with gnome. That's why a separate tool is better,
> > so it works for those who use nautilus and those who don't.
> > 
> > I have a funny screenshot from time before the official 2.0 release,
> > when nautilus draw it's desktop a bit of, so the "real" desktop was
> > shown from under it, and that proved that they are essentially drawn on
> > top of each other.
> 
> Um. Thats not *quite* how it works. If Nautilus is not running,
> gnome-settings-daemon (which is started on login to gnome by
> gnome-session) sets the X root window background pixmap. However if
> Nautilus runs, it sets the root window background itself instead.
> Additionally Nautilus opens a new window (the desktop window) over the
> root window, and sets the correct background pixmap on that window too.
> 

Sorry, and thanks for clearing that. I just wrote how I thought it
worked, without any deeper knowledge. But the main point was, that
Nautilus isn't neccessary for the desktop wallpaper, and that point
still is valid.

 Petri

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