Re: Background Program

Andy how could i get my hands on this scipt?

chris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Cowan" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 2:23 PM
Subject: Background Program


> In the KDE Control Panel  one of the options for "Background" is
> "Background program.  This intrigues me, as I have a perl script that
> automatically downloads the Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA every
> morning, and would like to have it be able to set the background at the
> same time.  However, I have been unable to find any documentation on
> background programs.  The big question I would like answered is how
> should a background program operate?  Should it return a reference to an
> image on the filesystem that should be made the background, or is there
> some library call it should make to set the background, or is there some
> other mode of operation?  I have not been able to find this documented
> anywhere.
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> Thanks,
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> Andy
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