Bash script to automatically change wallpaper

[kennethadammiller]

I've made this. It works completely. It adds the same capability to ubuntu as what windows has

just read the first 20 lines script, it's more than enough to start using it right away

[kennethadammiller]

http://pastebin.com/f1032ac65

sorry, silly me. forgot to add that

[kennethadammiller]

and oh yea, there's this

i posted this as well
you guys might take a look.
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23291/

[kennethadammiller]

nevermind guys. someone just told me about the application drapes. oh well. this was a pretty cool script. worked really well

[Potters Son]

Great idea. Now, if only there was a way to stream Rhythmbox's visualization or a screensaver as the desktop background. *sigh*

[kennethadammiller]

There is. You just have too look around. In fact, i've seen youtube videos where the desktop background is a video. you have to configure xwinwrap to do it;

only thing is it's not practical. It's not commonly implemented (therefore buggy) and it consumes more cpu doing something that's not productive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhyoCHoXioc

[richardjennings]

dude i want flying through the sky as my background.

how do i do it *arggggggghhhh*

[richardjennings]

http://tech.shantanugoel.com/resourc...z-xwinwrap.zip

gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false

xwinwrap -ni -o 0.6 -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf -- mplayer -wid WID -quiet movie.mpg

and its working yay

[richardjennings]

incidently, by setting:

gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop true

I have a clickable desktop icons and video!

[Matt_Johnson]

awesome