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.

In reply to Re: Rotate Wallpaper in Gnome 2 by benizi
in thread Rotate Wallpaper in Gnome 2 by dystrophy

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