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#1 2009-07-12 06:24:00
- fukawi2
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[SOLVED] Get List of 'Registered' Wallpaper (Gnome)
Does anyone know how to get a list of 'registered' wallpapers for Gnome (ie, the wallpapers that appear in the dialog when you open the Change Wallpaper dialog).
My wallpapers are all over the place, and I want to implement a wallpaper rotator, but it seems absolutely ridiculous that I should have to either store all my wallpaper in one directory, or hard code a list of wallpapers in to the script.
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#2 2009-07-12 08:05:24
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Re: [SOLVED] Get List of 'Registered' Wallpaper (Gnome)
Maybe you will more, and quicker answer for it, in the forum of http://gnome-look.org/.
My advice post this there too 
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#3 2009-07-14 05:19:58
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Re: [SOLVED] Get List of 'Registered' Wallpaper (Gnome)
Hmmm, not much love for me here so I'll give that a shot. Thanks djszapi
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#4 2009-07-14 12:53:17
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Re: [SOLVED] Get List of 'Registered' Wallpaper (Gnome)
Does anyone know how to get a list of 'registered' wallpapers for Gnome (ie, the wallpapers that appear in the dialog when you open the Change Wallpaper dialog).
My wallpapers are all over the place, and I want to implement a wallpaper rotator, but it seems absolutely ridiculous that I should have to either store all my wallpaper in one directory, or hard code a list of wallpapers in to the script.
The "registered" wallpapers are kept in /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome and the (kind of-sort of) lists are in /usr/share/gnome-background-properties in the form of three xml files.
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#5 2009-07-14 13:22:13
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Re: [SOLVED] Get List of 'Registered' Wallpaper (Gnome)
its in ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
im interested in your script, i tried to attempt this but im too much of a noob to script out the xml parser.
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#6 2009-07-14 22:35:02
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Re: [SOLVED] Get List of 'Registered' Wallpaper (Gnome)
its in ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
im interested in your script, i tried to attempt this but im too much of a noob to script out the xml parser.
Aha! That's what I was after, awesome... I'll post back when I'm done
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#7 2009-07-14 23:20:51
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Re: [SOLVED] Get List of 'Registered' Wallpaper (Gnome)
I hate trying to reinvent the wheel:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/freshwall/1.1.2
Found that in the process of trying to hack up a Pythion script to do exactly that.
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#8 2009-07-14 23:37:51
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Re: [SOLVED] Get List of 'Registered' Wallpaper (Gnome)
Added to AUR:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28302
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