Re: Rotate Wallpaper in Gnome 2

Nice job dystrophy. I whipped up an almost identical program just the other day, after stumbling upon GConf in another context.

In the hope that it may help another user in a similar situation, under RedHat 8.0, my background wasn't controlled by the value of the /desktop/gnome/background keys; I had to stop nautilus from drawing its own background.
I added the --no-desktop flag to the nautilus command line in ~/.gnome/session, but this can also be done with gconftool-2:

gconftool-2 --type=bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false

The only side effect is that you can't have any 'desktop' icons.

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Re: Rotate Wallpaper in Gnome 2 by jonadab (Parson) on Apr 25, 2003 at 14:53 UTC
It is possible to tell Nautilus not to draw its own wallpaper without stopping it from drawing desktop icons. My Mandrake 9.1 system was configured this way OOTB, but I specifically recall changing the setting in Nautilus under an earlier version of Mandrake. (No, that's not where 9.1 got the setting; I installed it on a blank partition.) Unfortunately, I don't know how to do this from Perl :-( Anyway, ++ to dystrophy; formerly I was just doing `ln -s $f ~/images/current-wallpaper` and the new wallpaper would take effect magically whenever X was restarted, but that meant having the same wallpaper for weeks, and I was just wondering the other day how to tell Gnome to reload the wallpaper, so this is a big improvement :-) Oh, one thing to add. You just troll a directory tree and look for images, but if you want better control over which images to use as wallpaper and which not, do what I do: create a single directory and fill it with symlinks to just the images you want used. Then `@f=<~/images/wallpaper-symlinks/>;` and there's no need for filtering. `{my$c;$ x=sub{++$c}}map{$ \.=$_->()}map{my$a=$_->[1]; sub{$a++ }}sort{_($a->[0 ])<=>_( $b->[0])}map{my@x=(& $x( ),$ _) ;\ @x} split //, "rPcr t lhuJnhea eretk.as o";print;sub _{ord(shift)($=-++$^H)%(42-ord("\r"))};` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Rotate Wallpaper in Gnome 2
by jonadab (Parson) on Apr 25, 2003 at 14:53 UTC

It is possible to tell Nautilus not to draw its own wallpaper without stopping it from drawing desktop icons. My Mandrake 9.1 system was configured this way OOTB, but I specifically recall changing the setting in Nautilus under an earlier version of Mandrake. (No, that's not where 9.1 got the setting; I installed it on a blank partition.) Unfortunately, I don't know how to do this from Perl :-(

Anyway, ++ to dystrophy; formerly I was just doing `ln -s $f ~/images/current-wallpaper` and the new wallpaper would take effect magically whenever X was restarted, but that meant having the same wallpaper for weeks, and I was just wondering the other day how to tell Gnome to reload the wallpaper, so this is a big improvement :-)

Oh, one thing to add. You just troll a directory tree and look for images, but if you want better control over which images to use as wallpaper and which not, do what I do: create a single directory and fill it with symlinks to just the images you want used. Then @f=<~/images/wallpaper-symlinks/*>; and there's no need for filtering.

{my$c;$ x=sub{++$c}}map{$ \.=$_->()}map{my$a=$_->[1];
sub{$a++ }}sort{_($a->[0 ])<=>_( $b->[0])}map{my@x=(&
$x( ),$ _) ;\ @x} split //, "rPcr t lhuJnhea eretk.as
o";print;sub _{ord(shift)*($=-++$^H)%(42-ord("\r"))};
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