using python to locate gnome resources

[OgreProgrammer]

How can I have my python program ask the system what the desktop background image is/or where it is?

[denarced]

You could try and parse $HOME/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
It would appear to contain a list of background-images

[denarced]

or you could use gnome's own tool to find out
gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename

[unutbu]

This code comes from Davyd Madeley's change-background.py script:

import gconf
class GConfClient:
    def __init__ (self):
        self.__client__ = gconf.client_get_default ()
    def get_background (self):
        return self.__client__.get_string("/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename")
    def set_background (self, background):
        self.__client__.set_string (
            "/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename", background)

client = GConfClient ()
print(client.get_background())

[OgreProgrammer]

Thanks unutbu and denarced. That was exactly what i needed.

Is there also some way for a window to know where it has been placed at after the mouse moves it?

[Kegusa]

Using gnome (gtk) you can determine the position of the window with gtk.Window.get_position().

Take a look at www.pygtk.org for the python docs on gtk, but be warned there is a brickload of docs to dive into!

Not sure if there are other methods to find this out, if there are I'm interested aswell.