Changing desktop background

**mirtux** · February 9th, 2005

Hi,
is there any possibility to find a program (maybe a deamon) that is capable of changing the desktop every fixed time, that can be set by the user?

Thanks in advance,
MC

**gheorghe_pop** · February 9th, 2005

None that i know of.But you could easly build one and then share it with the comunity and maybe webshots.com will like it and then they will launch a background service for linux

**Jad** · February 9th, 2005

is there a command line for changing the desktop background?

**rwabel** · February 9th, 2005

Originally Posted by mirtux

Hi,
is there any possibility to find a program (maybe a deamon) that is capable of changing the desktop every fixed time, that can be set by the user?

Thanks in advance,
MC

don't know this app, but maybe it's doing the job
http://bgchanger.sourceforge.net/

**bvc** · February 10th, 2005

http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=510
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=104
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=270

chbg is in hoary
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chbg/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/chbg/

A tool for changing the desktop background image in X11
A GTK+ based program that lets you periodically change your X
desktop. It has several random effects, a slideshow, and
and may act as a xscreensaver hack or as a standalone screensaver.

Homepage: http://chbg.sourceforge.net/

**mirtux** · February 10th, 2005

Thanks everybody i've got it, that's what i was searching for!

Regards,
MC

**Kat of Zion** · January 27th, 2007

Originally Posted by rwabel

don't know this app, but maybe it's doing the job
http://bgchanger.sourceforge.net/

There is one change that needs to be done before it can work properly with folder/file names that contain spaces. It was in the bgchanger.py located in the /usr/share/bgchanger/lib/ folder. Simply change one line.

Old line:
cmd += "--set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename %s " % pic

New line:
cmd += "--set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename '%s' " % pic

It was literally that simple but it took me a bit to realize what was the program was doing in the code and my boyfriend to deduce how to change the code to reflect the solution.

-Kat