How to make the background change

Vincent Trouilliez vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr
Fri Aug 12 04:59:20 UTC 2005


> The name/path to the wallpaper is stored in Gconf, the key is :
> /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
> You can set it at the command line (hence using a script run by cron or
> whatever) with some simple command like this : "gconf <key_name/path>
> <value>", but I have forgotten the exact syntax of the command, and 'man
> gconf' doesn't seem to exist, so you will have to google it.

Oops, the command is not 'gconf', but 'gcontool-2' it seems... man page
plus google should sort you out, unless someone here knows the syntax
off the top of his head and can answer you promptly, you never know your
luck...


--
Vince





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