XFCE 4.10 background not changing

bjschuma · 2012-05-03 12:06:18

Hi everybody!

I set up my xfce background as an image list that is supposed to change every 15 minutes. My background changes once, but not again. Has anybody else seen this?

stqn · 2012-05-03 13:25:45

Haven’t tried it; I use my own script to change backgrounds . Much more practical.

Something like:

#!/bin/bash

d=~/images/wallpapers

cd $d
list=($(find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | shuf))
index=0

while true; do
	pic=${list[$index]}
	xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path -s $d/$pic
	sleep 900

	index=$((index+1))
	if (( index == ${#list[*]} )); then
		index=0
	fi
done

There’s a small problem with that script: file names with spaces don’t work.

(The full version of my script actually selects pictures based on their brightness, too, which is the main reason why I wrote it.)

R00KIE · 2012-05-03 17:39:33

You might want to try 'xfdesktop --reload' after you set the background.

ConnorBehan · 2012-05-03 21:25:34

The regular method works for me. Are xfconf and xfsettingsd running?

bjschuma · 2012-05-03 23:56:20

ConnorBehan: xfconfd and xfsettingsd are both running:

bjschuma  1897  0.0  0.0  41188  2664 ?        S    08:26   0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd
bjschuma  2052  0.0  0.0 151892  6780 ?        Ss   08:27   0:00 xfsettingsd

R00KIE: It looks like `xfdesktop --reload` will walk through my image list, so worst case I'll run it in a cron job.

stqn: Thanks for the script, I may play around with it too. At a quick glance, would your xfconf-query line handle spaces better if you put "$d/$pic" in quotes?

Thanks for the replies!

daneel971 · 2012-05-04 11:24:59

stqn wrote:

The full version of my script actually selects pictures based on their brightness, too, which is the main reason why I wrote it.

Very interesting idea
Can you elaborate a little?

stqn · 2012-05-04 17:18:22

daneel971 wrote:

Very interesting idea
Can you elaborate a little?

There you go .

bjschuma wrote:

would your xfconf-query line handle spaces better if you put "$d/$pic" in quotes?

You’re right, however I had another problem with the “identify” call in the full version of the script… (See link above if you’re interested.)

Last edited by stqn (2012-05-04 17:18:59)

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#1 2012-05-03 12:06:18

XFCE 4.10 background not changing

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