Updating the background image

[Sjoerd Mullender]

On 2008-05-22 21:26, Jason D. Triolo wrote:
> There's a webcam image that I want to use as background wallpaper, and 
> have that image automatically update at a given interval. I was able to 
> do this with a script, up through Fedora 6. The script stopped working 
> from 7 and up, and I abandoned the project.
> 
> As I move to 9, I would like to get that little toy back. Downloading 
> the image is the easy part (the script still does that flawlessly), but 
> the problem comes in getting the GNOME desktop to see the changed file 
> and apply the change.
> 
> Can anyone offer some advice?

Perhaps you can use (one line, all but last argument as is):

gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename 
/path/to/file.jpg



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Sjoerd Mullender