Automatically changing background every hour

[Cameron Hutchison]

"Phil Bieber" <philbieber at gmail.com> writes:

>On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 09:31, Cameron Hutchison <lists at xdna.net> wrote:
>> I have a bunch of images that I like to use as background (wallpaper)
>> images. I would like my background to choose from these images at random
>> every hour and display it. How do I configure gnome to do this?

>Have look at desktop-drapes, drapes in the repos.

Thanks for that, Phil. I tried it for a while and it did just what I
wanted, but I found it was using too much memory. It was using 65MB
compared to 3.5MB for chbg.

I think I'll stick with chbg and see if I can find out what is setting
the gnome background on login. Maybe I can turn that off somewhere. I
did note an option in gconf - /desktop/gnome/background/draw_background
- but that is turned off and it still draws the background.

One of the side-effects of trying desktop-drapes is that it has set the
gnome background to one of my images, so at least when I log in now, I
get one of my images instead of a grey screen. The next chbg image then
appears an hour later.

Thanks again.