On 2017-02-11 01:42, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi, I am running openSuSE Leap 42.2 with the KDE Plasma 5 desktop. Does anyone have, or know of a script that one could run from crontab that will fetch an image from a known file/disk location and automagically update the wallpaper background? I have a working crontab script that fetches images periodically from off the internet and stores them in a known location under a fixed name. Google searches is not bringing me any joy on this one, I should think it is not all that difficult to do... Incidentally I tried using the slide show feature in configuring the wallpaper but no joy with that approach either... Dunno why not but apparently it does not recognize that an image file was changed/updated by another script, so it does not load a new image at whatever interval it is configured to run.)
You could change to another different image file, then back to the one you want, so that it reads it. Or, change your script to write fileA and hardlink it to fileB, then make the slide show to choose alternating A-B. Or something of the sort, you get the idea ;-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" (Minas Tirith))