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N00body

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Registered: 2021-11-23

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[SOLVED] Change background to all monitors by one xfconf command

Currently I know that the change of background by CLI by command "xconf-query" requires to know the monitor name and the number of screens.

An example command could be:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p "/backdrop/screen$N/$monitor_name/workspace$M/last-image" -s "$background_theme"

If I am in the case where I don't know prior the monitor name, the number of screens and the number of workspaces, is there a command that apply the same background to all monitors, screens and workspaces?

Last edited by N00body (2023-10-17 18:19:14)

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED] Change background to all monitors by one xfconf command

Not in the sense that there is one command that will apply to all, however, you could script something to pull put all "last-image" settings and set them to a new image. For example:

NEW_IMAGE="/usr/share/backgrounds/newimage.jpg"; for x in $(xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -lv | grep last-image | awk '{print $1}'); do xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p $x -s $NEW_IMAGE; done

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N00body

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Registered: 2021-11-23

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Re: [SOLVED] Change background to all monitors by one xfconf command

It works. ^^ Thank you