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fahrenheit

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Registered: 2006-08-29

Posts: 2

How to get the current backdrop path?

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

Pindakoe

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From: NL

Registered: 2003-11-26

Posts: 116

Re: How to get the current backdrop path?

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

TomE

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Registered: 2005-02-05

Posts: 132

Re: How to get the current backdrop path?

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

fahrenheit

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Registered: 2006-08-29

Posts: 2

Re: How to get the current backdrop path?

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

again many thanks

TomE

Member

Registered: 2005-02-05

Posts: 132

Re: How to get the current backdrop path?

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