On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Jason D. Triolo <jasonacg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > >> Perhaps you can use (one line, all but last argument as is): >> >> gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /path/to/file.jpg > > Unfortunately, this didn't help. In order for the image to change, I have to > right-click on the desktop and select "Change Desktop Background." > Interesting, on my system the desktop changes immediately when I use the command that Sjoerd suggested. At first it didn't work, then I realized was running as root and had changed the background for the root user, which had no effect because X was running as a different user. When running as the user I use when I run startx the background changed right away. Did a bit more tinkering to try to replicate your problem, and found something that may help. I noticed that the contents of ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/background contains a timestamp. If I just copied a new image to the same filename as the old image nothing happened and I got the same results as you did. However, if I first touched the file, then copied the image and then ran gconftool the image changed right away. The key seems to be to use the sequence of: touch, cp, then gconftool-2 To test this out I wrote a perl program to cycle through a directory of images and ran it as a cron job and it worked fine. BTW - this was on a fedora 7 box. Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
