DeskrootManual |
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Deskroot is very easy to use. Once installed you must complete a few easy steps to get things running.
First, create a directory in your home directory called ".deskroot". Second, create a text file in the directory you just made and call it "deskroot.conf". Third, edit deskroot.conf and do something like:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<deskroot>
<image>
<url>file:///home/jsdkl/background1.jpg</url>
<width>321</width>
<height>424</height>
<xloc>0</xloc>
<yloc>0</yloc>
</image>
</deskroot>
Now run deskroot. Deskroot will create a file called deskroot.jpg in the .deskroot directory. This image can then be placed as your background using a program such as xv or, for those using Nautilus for their desktop, use "background-properties-capplet --init-session-settings -b ~/.deskroot/deskroot.jpg".
To use urls other than file://, set up a script to download the images using lynx, wget or a simliar program. This script (or the commands themselves) can be run by cron or as part of you ppp-up scripts to automatically update your desktop. Nautilus ProblemsNautilus still isn't working quite right. It will load the image and display it fine, but if you call background-properties-capplet again to update the image, it will see that it's being asked to display the same file and not reload it.The workaround for now is to reset the background before calling background-properties-capplet. Hopefully this will be fixed in a future version of Nautilus (by checking the modification time, probably). |
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