[ale] Chaneg desktop background

JK jknapka at kneuro.net
Thu Oct 12 13:55:43 EDT 2006


Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On FC3 and greater is there a way I can change my desktop background via
> the command line?  I want to write a perl program that can go out and
> grab a photo from the web and make that my wall paper.  I will porgram
> it to go fetch every 30 minutes.

A particular photo, or just any old one?  If the latter, just
enable the webcollage screensaver.  (Though as I recently learned,
webcollage is not at all picky about what photos it picks, so
don't enable it in a business environment!)

-- JK



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