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

[K. Mandla]

P.S.: A note on my blog says this will do the trick for Gnome:

gconftool -t string –set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
~/potd-1600×1200.jpg

K.Mandla

On 2/26/07, K. Mandla <k.mandla at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This works for me with Openbox and feh:
>
> wget http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/potd/potd.php/commons/1600x1200<http://tools.wikimedia.de/%7Edaniel/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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> >    1.  GNOME - making a dynamic wallpaper (Brianna Laugher)
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> > Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:05:39 +1100
> > From: "Brianna Laugher" <brianna.laugher at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [UbuntuWomen] GNOME - making a dynamic wallpaper
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> > Hello! Just looking for a quick bit of advice.
> >
> > 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
> <http://tools.wikimedia.de/%7Edaniel/potd/potd.php>
> >
> > So I would like to set my desktop to be
> > http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/potd/potd.php/commons/1024x768.html<http://tools.wikimedia.de/%7Edaniel/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
>
> >
> > and I also found an interesting script for a GNOME 'wallpaper
> > randomiser' http://gnome-hacks.web.com/hacks.html?id=69
> >
> > I know some Python and can kind of fudge my way around shell
> > scripting, but not very well.
> >
> > Any tips?
> > I'm running GNOME on a Fedora Core 6 at work, and GNOME/Ubuntu (Breezy
> > I think) at home.
> >
> > thanks in advance for any advice!
> >
> > cheers,
> > Brianna
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