Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3138 mails)

[Sunny <sloncho@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:57:42 -0800, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sunny,
> 
> On Tuesday 14 December 2004 13:24, Sunny wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to change my wallpaper lets say every 30 or 5 minutes. I will
> > prepare a script, which will replace the current picture with a new
> > one, without changing the name, so there will be no need to mess with
> > the desktop options. And I will set this script to be run from cron.
> >
> > My only problem is, that I do not know hot to invoke desktop refresh,
> > so the new picture to be displayed. I need to refresh all kde user
> > sessions, if more than one. Any clue?
> 
> That's not really a cron kind of thing.
> 
> What you want is already built in to the KDE desktop software.
> 
> I configure my desktop to display a photographic image of the Earth with
> an up-to-date terminator (with a nighttime iamge that displays urban
> light islands on the dark side of the planet) using the existing
> features of the background image support in KDE and the XPlanet
> software to synthesize the image.
> 
> To wit:
> 
> - Control Center -> Appearance & Themes -> Background
> - Click "Advanced Options"
> - Enable "Use the following program for drawing the background"
> 
> Create a new entry that will invoke the script that generates you
> background image. Set the "Refresh time" to suit your taste. Look at an
> existing entry for clues on how to configure a background generator.
> The most important thing to know is that the name of the file in which
> to place new background images is expanded in place of any occurrences
> of "%f" in the command strings. Note, too, that this name will have no
> particular image-type-specific suffix (such as ".jpg", e.g.). If the
> program you use to generate an image requires such a suffix so it can
> determine what kind of image format to produce, you'll have to do
> something like this:
> 
>         Command: image-generator %f.png && mv %f.png %f
> 
> > Thanks
> > Sunny
> 
> 
> Randall Schulz
> 
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> 

Thanks Randal, I have always wondered why "reinventing the wheel"
approach always hits me :)

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