[plug] live desktop wallpaper

[Michael Collard]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 12:21, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> KISS:
> 
> watch -n 300 "GET http://mirror.bom.gov.au/radar/IDR123.gif >
> IDR123.gif;composite -geometry "100x175%" IDR123.gif
> abell1689_hstacs_full.jpg BG.jpg; gconftool-2 -s
> /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
> /home/wdk/galeon/abell1689_hstacs_full.jpg -t string;gconftool-2 -s
> /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /home/wdk/galeon/BG.jpg -t
> string"
> 
> on one line!
> 
> Found I had to set the BG to something else before the update would
> take, couldnt find a refresh command.  Takes a base image, inserts the
> latest retrieved radar image, and writes to the active wallpaper name,
> then refreshes it.

I'm going to note those commands, probably less overhead than a perl
script :)

Regards
Michael Collard