I run ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/changebg every ten minutes from cron
as myself (source below). Just change the two default variables and
chmod 755. Good luck.
-- Travis
#!/bin/sh
#
# changebg
#
# Place this script in
# ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/
#
# you can then call it at you leisure or
# add it to a cron job to be run by
# your user
DEFAULT_WALLPAPER_DIR="/mnt/mm/data/dump/pics"
DEFAULT_MIN_SIZE=50k
# TODO: and condition to allow user to
# override default values by passing values
# the command line
WALLPAPER_DIR=${DEFAULT_WALLPAPER_DIR}
MIN_SIZE=${DEFAULT_MIN_SIZE}
FILES_FOUND=`find "${WALLPAPER_DIR}" -size +${MIN_SIZE} -and -name
'*.jpg' | wc -l`
echo "****************************"
echo "* *"
echo "* ${FILES_FOUND} were found"
echo "* *"
echo "****************************"
RANDOM_NUMBER=$(( ${RANDOM} % ${FILES_FOUND} +1 ))
RANDOM_FILE=`find "${WALLPAPER_DIR}" -size +${MIN_SIZE} -and -name
'*.jpg' | head -n ${RANDOM_NUMBER} | tail -1`
echo "* *"
echo "* Setting ${RANDOM_FILE}"
echo "* *"
echo "****************************"
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename -t string
"${RANDOM_FILE}"
# TODO
# implement '-size' '-path' '-bg' and '--help' parameters
# support multiple paths
# support center, stretch, etc
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:01:36 -0700, Rick Stevens
<rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Laurence Orchard wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I have a series of digital photos taken with my camera using a time
> > delay of 1 min over two hours.
> >
> > I would like to use these as a changing screen background on a 2 hour
> > loop.
> > I know how to change the background using the menu system, but I think I
> > need to use a script to do what I want.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a program to change the background or the file where
> > the background picture file name is stored, so I can change it every
> > min?
>
> xsetroot will change the bacground image of the root (background) window
> of X. "man xsetroot" for info.
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