Re: Disabling nautilus

[Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale hmc edu>]

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 09:03, Chris Rouch wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 16:08, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 06:46, Chris Rouch wrote:
> 
> > > That gets rid of the entire desktop. Is there anyway to keep the desktop
> > > icons, but set the background from outside nautilus? 
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you mean. The icons are drawn by Nautilus, so if you
> > don't have Nautilus running, you don't get icons.
> 
> I want the icons, and I want nautilus, but I want to set the background
> from a script, not a gui. 

This is very doable. I have a cron job that does it every hour. Here's
the script I use (never meant for public consumption :-) )

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
$dir = "/home/ben/Documents/pix/backgrounds/activeBackgrounds/";
 
@files = `ls ${dir}*.JPG`;
 
$filename = $files[rand(@files)];
chomp($filename);
 
system("gconftool-2", "--type", "string", "--set",
"/desktop/gnome/background/picture_options", "scaled");
system("gconftool-2", "--type", "string", "--set",
"/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename", $filename);



Basically gconftool-2 is the program you want to use.

I'm meaning to modify this script to weight it's choice toward recent
pictures but I havn't bothered yet.

--Ben

> > If you just want to change your desktop background you can use
> > Applications->Desktop Preferences->Background, which I would consider to
> > be "outside nautilus". Also you can use gconf to set the background.
> 
> If you mean gconf-editor, then that works, but as it uses a gui it's not
> really what I want. I assume the menu you mention works as well (my
> redhat 9 machine is at home so I can't check it), but again it's not
> really what I want.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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