using background images in breezy

Jim Richardson warlock at eskimo.com
Sun Aug 28 20:27:40 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 17:38 +0200, ulrich steffens wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 28.08.2005, 02:10 -0700 schrieb Jim Richardson:
> > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 22:21 -0400, Seth Hasani wrote:
> > > <quote who="Jim Richardson" on Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:55:34PM EDT>
> > > 
> > > > Is there a way to configure GNOME/Nautilus to allow me to rt click on an
> > > > image and select "use for background image" or something similar? I can
> > > > fire up the System->Preferences->Desktop Background, and use that, but
> > > > that's a bit convoluted. 
> > > >
> > > Try the SetWallpaper nautilus-script:
> > > http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/cat-sysconfig.php
> > > 
> > > Seth 
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks for the tip, unfortunately, all it does is remove whatever image
> > I am using, and give me a blank background, but this scripting thing
> > looks rather intersting. Is there a way to have the scripts
> > in .gnome2/nautilus-scripts only show up in the context menu for the
> > relevent filetypes? ie, rt click on an image, you get the scripts that
> > are applicable to an image? 
> > 
> > 
> 
> i think you should have a look at this :)
> 
> http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=1057


I've seen it thanks! It looks interesting, but I will wait until it
shows up in Ubuntu before I dink with it, I tried compiling it, and ran
into a bunch of errors, probably because I did something wrong :) But I
took that as a sign that it's not for me yet, being clueless wrt C/C++


-- 
Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
"The Secret of Zen lies in just two words: Not Always So.." - Shunryu
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