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ning

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Registered: 2008-11-15

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is any software like Drapes in Archlinux?

the http://drapes.mindtouchsoftware.com/ can randomly chnage wallpaer, but I pacman -Ss drapes can't found.
So is there any software work this way?

Jerry

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From: Philippines

Registered: 2007-09-14

Posts: 126

Re: is any software like Drapes in Archlinux?

I'm not sure if nitrogen can do this, it's best you try it out.  If you want a drapes package in aur ask in the aur request section of the forum.

Vintendo

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 375

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Re: is any software like Drapes in Archlinux?

Feh can do this

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Feh … ound_Image

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kgas

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From: Qatar

Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 718

Re: is any software like Drapes in Archlinux?

If you like to change wallpapers you can use wallpapoz , available in aur. I used that earlier with Ubuntu installation.

syntaxerrormmm

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From: Italy

Registered: 2008-10-22

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Re: is any software like Drapes in Archlinux?

ning: why don't you write a PKGBUILD for drapes? There's plenty of documentation on how to do that on the wiki...

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ning

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Registered: 2008-11-15

Posts: 27

Re: is any software like Drapes in Archlinux?

I created a file, called wallpaper.sh, and have my .xinitrc run it when I log into X
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How can I  run wallpaper.sh when I log into X?
write like this in .xinitrc file ?
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sh /home/ning/wallpaper.sh
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@syntaxerrormmm
I just use Archlinux in a half month ago, maybe I can do this job later.

Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

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Re: is any software like Drapes in Archlinux?

Or you can just have Cron do it for you on a  regular basis,
why download more software when what you need is already built in!

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ning

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Registered: 2008-11-15

Posts: 27

Re: is any software like Drapes in Archlinux?

I follow the wiki(http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Feh#Random_Background_Image)
but it seems this script crash natuius down, isn't it?
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#!/bin/bash
WALLPAPERS="$HOME/path_to_your_wallpapers"
ALIST=( `ls -w1 -B --ignore=*.sh $WALLPAPERS` )
RANGE=${#ALIST[*]}
SHOW=$(( $RANDOM % $RANGE ))
feh --bg-scale $WALLPAPERS/${ALIST[$SHOW]}

Last edited by ning (2008-12-11 15:19:16)

mentallaxative

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-07-14

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Re: is any software like Drapes in Archlinux?

You should click on 'Show more details' and see what it says, but I suspect it has something to do with Nautilus and Feh conflicting with each other. If you didn't already know, Nautilus sets the background wallpaper too.

I don't use Nautilus and I use that script every day just fine.