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Subject:    Re: [kde] How can I get KDE to leave the background alone?
From:       stan <stanb () panix ! com>
Date:       2005-02-04 0:47:08
Message-ID: 20050204004708.GC32034 () teddy ! fas ! com
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On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:50:44AM +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Friday 04 February 2005 00:30, stan wrote:
> > I'm trying to convert from Gnome (1.4) to KDE (3.7).
> >
> > 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.
> 
> I think the best way is to set the wallpaper by DCOP
> 
> from commandline this would look like this
> 
> #> dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper path_plus_filename mode
> 
> mode is a numerical value for how the image gets displayed:
> centered = 1
> tiled = 2
> center tiled = 3
> scaled = 6
> 
> (the KDE sources have this definition, NoWallpaper is  0:
> NoWallpaper, Centred, Tiled, CenterTiled, CentredMaxpect,
> TiledMaxpect, Scaled, CentredAutoFit, ScaleAndCrop, lastWallpaperMode)
> 
Mmm, that's close. I could addd that to the perl script.

However, when I try it from the command line it, like my script, gets
imeaditly overwritten by something else KDE is doing.

How should I have the settins in control panel to make this work?

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neither liberty nor safety."
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