Changing the background image

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday 21 May 2004 04:06, Jeremy Cohoe wrote:
> Hi
>
> I can change the background image using Kcontrol > Appearance & Themes >
> Background, then clicking the Wallpaper tab, then finally clicking an image
> out of the Wallpaper dropdown list. Once I select my image, then click
> Apply, the image on the background is changed instantly.
>
> Is there a way to do this non-interactively? I would like my users to be
> able to click an icon on the desktop or menu that changes the wallpaper
> instantly.

If you know the image's filename, you can do it by DCOP
see
dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface
function setWallPaper

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
www.mrunix.de - Unix/Linux programming forum
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