Is there any nicer way for my Perl program to refresh a panel applet's properties than doing "killall gnome-panel"?
I can write new contents to, e.g.
~/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/wallpaper.pl-1.desktop
but how can I get the applet to refresh itself from the file?
Killing the whole panel is slow, obtrusive and causes pidgin to unminimise.
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