How Can I change wallpaper from CLI?

Nicolás Alvarez nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 19:35:28 BST 2012


2012/9/5, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org>:
> On Wednesday 05 September 2012, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org>
> wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 05 September 2012, Shaun Reich wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org>
> wrote:
>> >> > 2012/9/5 Weng Xuetian <wengxt at gmail.com>:
>> >> >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:48 AM, kevinzhow <kevinchou.c at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> >> >>> hello~
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Sorry to brother,I don not know which channel should i send this
>> >> >>> mail exactly , so i send this mail to kde, kde-devel and
>> >> >>> ode-core-devel, but i really need this help,  please
>> >> >
>> >> > This looks like the KDE Get Hot New Stuff for the desktop wallpaper,
>> >> > from your screenshoots.
>> >> > why don't you create a backend for the GetHotNewStuff for your
>> >> > wallpapers?
>> >>
>> >> there's more to it than just "a source for wallpapers" afict, so i
>> >> don't think that's a valid solution.
>> >
>> > This should be possible using wget and some dbus calls, shouldn't it ?
>> >
>> > Alex
>>
>> No, I don't think any plasma containments expose their configuration on
>> dbus.
>
> In KDE3 it was possible to set the wallpaper via dcop in kdesktop. So we
> can't
> do this anymore ?

In the past, a desktop had a wallpaper. Now, a plasma desktop can have
one or more desktop containments (activities) which may have any
wallpaper plugin which may or may not have the concept of a static
image that you can configure.

-- 
Nicolás
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