[UbuntuWomen] ubuntu-women Digest, Vol 13, Issue 27

[K. Mandla]

This works for me with Openbox and feh:

wget http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/potd/potd.php/commons/1600x1200; feh
--bg-center potd-1600x1200.jpg

So I think Gnome should use gconftool -s to set
/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename ... ? I'm not very familiar with
Gnome or gconf, so you may have to toy with the settings.

K.Mandla


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> Hello! Just looking for a quick bit of advice.
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> I am involved with Wikimedia Commons, which is a free-licensed media
> repository run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who also run Wikipedia).
> One of the users has created a page that automatically updates with
> each day's "picture of the day". See:
> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/potd/potd.php
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> So I would like to set my desktop to be
> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/potd/potd.php/commons/1024x768.html
> for example, so it will update each day.
>
> there are some instructions for KDE here -
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Duesentrieb/POTD#POTD_on_your_desktop
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> and I also found an interesting script for a GNOME 'wallpaper
> randomiser' http://gnome-hacks.web.com/hacks.html?id=69
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> I know some Python and can kind of fudge my way around shell
> scripting, but not very well.
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> Any tips?
> I'm running GNOME on a Fedora Core 6 at work, and GNOME/Ubuntu (Breezy
> I think) at home.
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> thanks in advance for any advice!
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> cheers,
> Brianna
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