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yaneurabeya
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 Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:15 am Post subject: XFCE 4.2 RC2 wallpaper script |
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| I was just wondering if anyone had worked out a script similar to some I've seen for Gnome and Enlightenment, which would provide a "rotating/changing wallpaper" feature that KDE has in kdesktop. What I'm looking for is similar to this post: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=240859&highlight= . suburbanizedgeek suggested a script farther down the page that uses what I am looking for, but since I no longer am using enlightenment I was wondering what a proper xfce substitute might be. |
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zsoltika
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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I'm wondering why anyono need a script for this?
Just read this section of the documentatuion.
In short:
Create a backdrop (a.k.a. wallpaper) list in the settings, then
add to your crontab.
Or run manually from your console while xfce running.
Hope this helps. |
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yaneurabeya
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| zsoltika wrote: | | I'm wondering why anyono need a script for this? |
I have a great deal of personal pictures with friends which I want to cycle through, so that's why I am trying to do this. Just keeping some good memories going =).
//EDIT:
Just taking that into consideration, I thought that this method was better... cron would be called a lot and it would try to bring up the display although I might just be operating in a terminal window, ie not very efficient. So I just used the old script suggestion from my other thread, but just modified it with your note.
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#!/bin/bash
#
timeint=300; # number of seconds
while true
do
sleep ${timeint};
xfdesktop -reload;
done
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To anyone else interested (not sure anyone will mind, but just in case for future readers): All that needs to be done is add it to .xinitrc and you're done, ie...
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xfce4-session & nice -n 19 rotate_wallpaper.sh &
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