Setting default wallpaper with a script

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On May 4, 2010, Antony Loebs wrote:
> So I've continued to play around with scripting the default Plasma desktop
> (with JavaScript) and have a quick question: how can I set the wallpaper? I
> tried the following
> ---
> var activity = new Activity("desktop");
> activity.currentConfigGroup = new Array("Wallpaper");
> activity.writeConfig("wallpaper",
> "/usr/share/wallpapers/Default_wallpaper/");
> ---
> but with no joy.

the wallpaper doesn't get notified of the change; in fact, i only added any 
sort of real wallpaper support in 4.5 with the wallpaperPlugin and 
wallpaperMode properties for Activity objects.

still ... what is probably needed is a way to write to the wallpaper config 
itself and catch when that happens. and when it does, trigger a reload on the 
wallpaper.

... which i've just implemented. your code above works in 4.5.

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