Re: Setting wallpapers from menu

oleksandr korneta <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fluxbox.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
on 06/04/2007 09:32 AM Peter N Spotts wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm using the [wallpaper] setting in my menu in hopes of changing
> wallpapers from time to time. But the entry, which as far as I can tell
> follows the changelog/documentation, fails to show up on the menu, let
> alone function. I tried setting up a specific submenu for it, as happens
> with Styles, but that didn't work either. Here's my current menu entry:
> 
> [submenu] (Wallpaper)
>     [wallpaper] (/home/~/Backgrounds) {fbsetbg -f}
> [end]
> 
> I suspect I'm not getting syntax quite right, and that it's something
> blindingly obvious...

this works for me:

[submenu] (backgrounds) {choose a background}
    [wallpapers] (/home/sashko/_images/walpapers) {fbsetbg -c}
[end]

it gives me a submenu with the list of the files in ~/_images/walpapers 
so I just click on any of these and becomes my wallpaper.


-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

/The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./


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