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Re: How to get the current backdrop path?

dummy@example.com (TomE) — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:52:36 +0000

fahrenheit wrote:

thanks, that is an approach, should have thought of making the bash aproach also
again many thanks

I've updated it a bit now you can use any backdrop.list made with xfdesktop, but you still need to use ~/.config/xfce4/deskimg as the image file.

#!/bin/bash

#change this to any list made with xfdesktop
LIST=~/.config/xfce4/desktop/backdrops.list

FILES=`grep -c "/" $LIST`

RAND=$((RANDOM%$FILES+1))

IMGLINE="$(($RAND+1))p"
LINK=`sed -n $IMGLINE $LIST`

rm ~/.config/xfce4/deskimg
link $LINK ~/.config/xfce4/deskimg

FILES_NEW=$(($FILES-1))

sed -i -e "s/files\=$FILES/files\=$FILES_NEW/g" $LIST

DELLINE="$(($RAND+1))d"
sed -i -e $DELLINE $LIST

xfdesktop --reload

Re: How to get the current backdrop path?

dummy@example.com (fahrenheit) — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:07:35 +0000

thanks, that is an approach, should have thought of making the bash aproach also

again many thanks

Re: How to get the current backdrop path?

dummy@example.com (TomE) — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:57:12 +0000

xfdesktop can't do this, but bash can.
And I happen to be bored enough to wright the script. ;D
It read the wallpaper from a file, links it to "~/.config/xfce4/deskimg", removes the wallpaper from the list and reloads xfdesktop.

#!/bin/bash
FILES=`head -n 1 ~/.config/xfce4/deskfiles | awk -F"files=" {'print $2'}`
RAND=$((RANDOM%$FILES+1))
IMGLINE="$(($RAND+1))p"
LINK=`sed -n $IMGLINE ~/.config/xfce4/deskfiles`
rm ~/.config/xfce4/deskimg
link $LINK ~/.config/xfce4/deskimg
FILES_NEW=$(($FILES-1))
sed -i -e "s/files\=$FILES/files\=$FILES_NEW/g" ~/.config/xfce4/deskfiles
DELLINE="$(($RAND+1))d"
sed -i -e $DELLINE ~/.config/xfce4/deskfiles
xfdesktop --reload

You will need to make a file with all your wallpapers in call "~/.config/xfce4/deskfiles" it should look like this

files=3
/path/to/wallpaper1.png
~/path/to/wallpaper2.png
/path/to/wallpaper3.jpg

you can have as many wallpapers as you like just make sure that "file=" has the right number or it will not display all the wallpapers.
xfdesktop will need to be pointed at ~/.config/xfce4/deskimg

Re: How to get the current backdrop path?

dummy@example.com (Pindakoe) — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:50:49 +0000

This is impossible for Xfce 4.0 en 4.2 AFAIK. I do not know whether this changed for 4.4

How to get the current backdrop path?

dummy@example.com (fahrenheit) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:00:41 +0000

Hi all, i have a question: is there someway to get the current backdrop path from the backdrops list?

is it stored in some file or something?

my objective is to make a simple backdrops laucher, the randomizing part is done by xfdesktop -reload, i'm missing the remove current backdrop from list and for that i need to get the current backdrop path, any ideias?

thanks in advance