[desktop-discuss] desktop background with compiz fusion

[Darren Kenny]

Funnily enough, just did that too ;)

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Thanks,

Darren.

Sebastien Roy wrote:
> Darren Kenny wrote:
>> A quick look at xplanet and I can see the -output param - you could use that to
>> render to a PNG and then use the "-post" option to run a script to update the
>> background...
>>
>> Maybe .. :)
> 
> Yes, this works.  It's a hack, but it works!  I wrote a little script to 
> wrap this up:
> 
> IMAGEFILE=/export/home/seb/Pictures/planet.png
> GCONFKEY=/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
> POSTCMD="gconftool-2 -s -t string $GCONFKEY $IMAGEFILE"
> /usr/local/bin/xplanet -projection rectangular -config overlay_clouds 
> -output $IMAGEFILE  -geometry 1920x1200 -post "$POSTCMD"
> 
> I'm not sure what nasty performance implications there are to be calling 
> gconftool-2 to set the background like this, but since it only happens 
> every few minutes, maybe it's not a big deal.
> 
> Thanks for the hints!
> -Seb
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