From kde  Thu Feb 03 23:47:41 2005
From: Tomasz Grobelny <grotk () poczta ! onet ! pl>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:47:41 +0000
To: kde
Subject: Re: [kde] How can I get KDE to leave the background alone?
Message-Id: <200502040047.42300.grotk () poczta ! onet ! pl>
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On Friday 04 of February 2005 00:30, stan wrote:
> I'm trying to convert from Gnome (1.4) to KDE (3.7).
>
That will propably take some time... ;-)

> In Gnome, I have a perl script that is started up with the equivelant of
> autorun. It then selects a random iamge from a directory of images, and
> uses xv to set the root X window to that image. Works like a charm.
>
> I've tried several things to try to get KDE to emualte this behavior, but I
> cna't seem to figure out how to get it to just leave the background
> untouched. Is this possible? If not, I'll follow up with another question
> about how to change the behavior of the closest thing I've foundin KDE.
>
There are at least 2 solutions:
1. configure a slide show in kcontrol (the same place as normal wallpaper)
2. use dcop calls instead of xv to set wallpaper. Example call:
dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper /full/path/to/file.png 1

Tomek
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