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graysky

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Registered: 2011-08-14

Posts: 26

Change xfce4 wallpaper in order from a list

What what ever reason, the built-in functionality to change desktop wallpaper from a list does not work for me.  My workaround has been to have a cronjob execute the following, but it has the nasty habit of repeating wallpapers.  I want to have a my desktop wallpaper change at a regular interval and simply go down a list in order.  Thankful for advice.

$ crontab -l
#     *     *   *    *        command to be executed
#-     -     -   -    -
#|     |     |   |    |
#|     |     |   |    +----- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0)
#|     |     |   +------- month (1 - 12)
#|     |     +--------- day of month (1 - 31)
#|     +----------- hour (0 - 23)
#+------------- min (0 - 59)
MAILTO=""

*/20 * * * *  [[ ! -z $(pidof xfdesktop) ]] && DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/xfdesktop --reload

Pindakoe

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From: NL

Registered: 2003-11-26

Posts: 116

Re: Change xfce4 wallpaper in order from a list

I think the issue is that xfdesktop will always take a random item from the list defined in the settings. A work-around could be:

• construct your own list (fot instance using find)

• Set xfdesktop to display a dummy wallpaper, say dummy.jpg. Don't set xfdesktop to use a list

• Write a script that at given intervals copies the next file from your list over dummy.jpg and then reloads it (xfdesktop --reload)

graysky

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Registered: 2011-08-14

Posts: 26

Re: Change xfce4 wallpaper in order from a list

Good idea, Pindakoe.  Seems like this should be a native feature though...

Sideburns

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From: Trinidad, CO

Registered: 2011-03-30

Posts: 467

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Re: Change xfce4 wallpaper in order from a list

Or, of course, you could just install and use wallpapoz.

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