[arch-general] Gnome 3.8 and desktop background

[Guillermo Leira]

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-bounces at archlinux.org] En nombre de
> Martti Kühne
> Enviado el: martes, 23 de abril de 2013 13:39
> Para: General Discussion about Arch Linux
> Asunto: Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3.8 and desktop background
> 
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Karol Babioch <karol at babioch.de> wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > I guess you are using some sort of an extension to get "icons on the
> > desktop"?
> >
> 
> That "sort of an extension" is nautilus' (imo annoying) property to
> create its "desktop window" when it's not already there. To set a
> desktop background there you need to tell gnome and nautilus instead
> of wmsetbg/feh/display what desktop background you wish. There seems
> to be a gconftool-2 way to do that properly [0].
> 
> cheers!
> mar77i
> 
> [0] http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-244297.html

I'm using the following script. I don't remember where I found it. I call it from a cron job.

#!/usr/bin/bash
# Script to rotate GNOME 3 wallpapers
 
export $(xargs -n 1 -0 echo </proc/$(pidof gnome-session)/environ | grep -Z DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=)
PICTUREDIR=/home/gleira/backgrounds/
NEWBACKGROUND="$(ls "$PICTUREDIR" | shuf -n1)"
uri=file://"$PICTUREDIR$NEWBACKGROUND"
GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "$uri"
GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options "scaled"

Regards,

Guillermo