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otyugh

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Registered: 2015-01-11

Posts: 36

Change xfdesktop wallpaper from commandline

Hey,
looking for a "universal" way to change all wallpaper for "any computer/monitor" from commandline. I ended up finding there was a big variety of way that info was stored depending of the computer/how the monitor was plugged.

Is there a smarter way than bruteforcing all the possible outcomes ?
"/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/last-image"
"/backdrop/screen0/monitor1/last-image"
"/backdrop/screen0/monitorVGA-0/workspace0/last-image"
"/backdrop/screen0/monitorVGA-1/workspace0/last-image"
"/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace0/last-image"
"/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS/workspace0/last-image"
"/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS-1/workspace0/last-image"

Last edited by otyugh (2025-04-06 23:06:08)

otyugh

Member

Registered: 2015-01-11

Posts: 36

Re: Change xfdesktop wallpaper from commandline

Maybe the other way to go would be to unset them all and set a "general" default instead ? I wonder how is seeded that "wallpaper initialization value" !

Last edited by otyugh (2025-04-07 23:10:34)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,879

Re: Change xfdesktop wallpaper from commandline

What version of xfdesktop are you running? Also what distro?

But there is no general default. The names are created as needed.

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