[ale] Linux Wallpaper and WebShots

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Jason Day wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 05:22:41PM -0400, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> > 
> > I'm shifting my girlfriend from Windows to Linux and am a bit confused. 
> > She likes having various pictures from WebShots.com for her desktop 
> > wallpaper (and having them autochange), and WebShots is a Windows only 
> > organization.
> 
> I could swear I've seen linux applications that can grab stuff from the
> web and save it as your background, but a quick search didn't turn up
> anything.  I did find this however:
> http://www.jamesbarford.co.uk/webdec.shtml
> 
> >From the site: "WebDec is a command line tool that extracts the jpeg
> images files from webshots .wbz,wbp and wbc files."

Looks like a Bingo! at first blush. (Now - why didn't this show up for me 
- or did I just gloss over it?) I'm off to learn who how and why

Much obliged, this could help a bunch!


> 
> HTH,
> Jason
> 

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