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

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