Kubuntu, random background image at startup

[John L Fjellstad]

stan <stanb at panix.com> writes:

> I'm building a machine that I plan on transitioning my wife to as a
> workstation. She is curently using an older Debian machine, running an old
> version of Gnome (1.4 if I recall corectly).
>
> I have a small perl script that selects a random image from a given
> directory, and makes this her background when she logs in.
>
> How can I acomplish this same goal in the KDE version shiped with Kubuntu
> 6.10?

I would use the same script.  Let the script copy the image to say
~/.local/background.jpg 
In Configure Desktop, choose this image as your background

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