Re: background utility question

David Williamson kirjoitti:
> > Is this list actually up and running?  At least one of my posts never
> > made it, and I'm hardly seeing any posts at all.
> > 
> > I'm using 1.0rc2 via the Ubuntu deb, on an nvidia twinview system.
> > Overall I'm loving it.   But the one thing I can't figure out how to do
> > well is come up with a way of changing my root window backgrounds,
> > periodically (like every few minutes) to different pictures for each
> > head - not the same image for each head, and not one image stretched
> > across each head.
> > 
> > wmsetbg allows me to set one image in EACH head, instead of stretching
> > across BOTH heads, and that's nice, but that's the closest I've come.
> > A little shell script rotates through a directory of images but
> > again, it's the same image in each root window.  I guess I'm trying to
> > find some twinview-aware utility to change the root window. KDE has a
> > kslideshow.kss screensaver that works pretty well, at least in KDE, and
> > can be made to work in fluxbox, but I'd rather use another utility that
> > doesn't force me to use kslideshow.kss --setup to tell it what images I
> > want to display.  And XFCE does the twinview root window thing pretty
> > well too. But I can't find anything specifically for fluxbox, or
> > generically for any window manager out there.
> > 
> > Can someone point me to some twinview-aware apps perhaps?
> > 
> > Or, even, tell me a little bit about how to tell an application to do
> > something in one head versus the other?  I've mapped a key to move apps
> > from one head to another using the new sethead command ... and that's
> > neat ... but I think only fluxbox recognizes that command, right?
> > 
> > Also, am I reading correctly that the setroot command in styles is now
> > completely ignored, no matter what?  I cannot make it work, and I've
> > googled a bit and it seems it may have been a security issue.
> > 
> > Thanks - and I hope this message makes it to the list.
> > 
> > dave w

Well, I'm using the following script to set up my wallpapers on my dual-head
Nvidia system (No TwinView used, though, just two separate desktops.):

#!/bin/bash
DISPLAY=":0.1"
fbsetbg -u wmsetbg -f $HOME/path/to/picture_for_secondary_head.jpg
DISPLAY=":0.0"
fbsetbg -u wmsetbg -f $HOME/path/to/picture_for_main_head.jpg
xrefresh

The 'xrefresh' is there because the setting of the wallpaper messes up the
output of root-tail on my desktop.

JR

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