Switching desktop background

[TopGear]

Hey,

In KDE you can automaticly switch you desktop background time to time. But is this possible to in Gnome? I am allready using drapes, but it is making my desktop awful! See picture.

So can somebody help me? I really hope so!

[.nedberg]

sudo apt-get install wallpaper-tray

That was the best answer to a similar thread a couple of days ago...

[John Bean]

I ended up writing a simple script to meet my purpose. The essential information is that the image to use can be set using gconftool:

gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename someimagefile.jpg

In the example "someimagefile.jpg" should be replaced by the actual image you want to use., and in the simplest case you could just set up a cron job to do the change.