remote background

[Rogue]

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Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Mark wrote:
>> And how would Nautilus handle this? do you need to notify nautilus
>> that the background is changed? or is nautilus checking the background
>> all the time to see if it's existing? If the last one is the case than
>> rewriting the "desktop.png" file will work just fine.
> 
> This is easy to test: just change the PNG you use as a wallpaper and see
> Nautilus does not update by itself, you have to do *something* with
> either nautilus or gnome-background-properties..

I see that Jhon has also posted on the gnome-list group and he posted
that the following command line should work:

gconftool-2 -t str --set /desktop/gnome/background/ \
picture_filename "http://somesite.com/wallpaper1.png"

So I guess, once we update the file, we should just run the following
command again and it should change it.

I am currently toying around with doing this in Java, if I have a
WebStart app running, I shall host it for you guys to try.

I am not the Python person (unfortunately).

later,
Rogue

> 
>> I'm not sure if this is a good solution for the topic starter... it
>> seems like he wants to do something different than this.
> 
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