Re: Background Doesn't Change via cron(8)

On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 10:06 -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote:

> * It changes ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/background/%gconf.xml

oh, god. why are you doing this?

use gconftool to change the gconf database.

> Apparently, gconfd-2 is not getting informed of the change.  Its cache
> still has the old values.  How do I fix this?

by using the right tool for the job.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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