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Magicloud

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From: China

Registered: 2004-11-29

Posts: 3

Does desktop change wallpapers in a list only on start xfce?

I have set a list of my wallpapers, but it seems only when xfce starts the wallpaper changes. And I always leave my pc on....
So, I wonder if it can change with an interval, like 10 min.

Thanks.

Nick

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Registered: 2005-02-17

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Re: Does desktop change wallpapers in a list only on start xfce?

I though running xfdestop -reload (or something similar) works... So maybe that also works in a cron job...

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freddec

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Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 5

Re: Does desktop change wallpapers in a list only on start xfce?

Hi
I've try to do a cron job, but it' doesn't works

I open a newtopic today
http://forum.xfce.org/index.php?topic=3969.0

Pindakoe

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From: NL

Registered: 2003-11-26

Posts: 116

Re: Does desktop change wallpapers in a list only on start xfce?

xfdesktop --reload is the command, but you cannot run this as a cron job, because that will be a separate instance of yourself being logged in, without X11 and desktop. You can use a script along following lines:

while [ 1 ]; do
  sleep 15m             # xfdesktop will change backdrop upon starting
  xfdesktop --reload
done

In which 15m stands for 15 minutes...

freddec

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Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 5

Re: Does desktop change wallpapers in a list only on start xfce?

I've find another simple solution
Look a my topic
http://forum.xfce.org/index.php?topic=3 … 1#msg15671