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EgidioCaprino

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[SOLVED] KDE - Change wallpaper from command line

Hi,

Is there any way to change KDE wallpaper from the command line? I found a dcup command online but I don't have it in the latest version of KDE on Arch.

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Rog131

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE - Change wallpaper from command line

Hi,

Is there any way to change KDE wallpaper from the command line? I found a dcup command online but I don't have it in the latest version of KDE on Arch.

Yes, after the Bug 217950 was fixed - Ability to set desktop wallpaper via a dbus command: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217950
--> Comment 42: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217950#c42

Add method to run a script from DBus directly

That is - run a java scrip to set the plasma wallpaper - Plasma reviewboard has an example script: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125648/

EgidioCaprino

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE - Change wallpaper from command line

Thank you Rog,

How do you run the JS script? NodeJS?

Alos, I think that overwriting the file with the current wallpaper should work around.

Rog131

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE - Change wallpaper from command line

Thank you Rog,

How do you run the JS script? NodeJS?

You call the script from the qdbus:

qdbus org.kde.plasmashell /PlasmaShell org.kde.PlasmaShell.evaluateScript <YourScriptHere>

dbus wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus

Last edited by Rog131 (2016-08-14 11:26:11)

EgidioCaprino

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE - Change wallpaper from command line

Thank you Rog!