file:// != file// You're missing a colon.
Wow. I will kill myself right now. That is really, really emberrasing. I even looked up the dconf-edior and should have noticed the :
Thank you very much, it works like a charm now.
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file:///home/thunderuser/Wallpaper/Applejack - Silhouette.png"
... but in the Script, Gnome seems to go to sleep or drink some beer or whatever. Point is, it does not do what it should. Here is the script.
1 #!/bin/bash
2
3 #set -o errexit
4
5 TIMEOUT=10
6 BGDIR=/home/thunderuser/Wallpaper
7
8 while :
9 do
10 for f in $BGDIR/*
11 do
12 echo "$f"
13 gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file//$f"
14 sleep $TIMEOUT
15 done
16 done
Thanks in advance.
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