Change Background Color/Image

tonyfreeman · 03-11-2005, 12:07 PM

The desktop is GNOME.

I need to write a script that would change the current background color/image to a red background color. When the script is finished, I'd like it to replace the background with what was there before (color or image).

What would be the proper program that I could call from a script that would report the background information so that I could save it to a temporary place in order to restore it?

Thanks for any help.

-- Tony

rose_bud4201 · 03-11-2005, 02:32 PM

I'm not positive, as I use WindowMaker and haven't ever tried anything like this, but it looks like "gconftool-2" might be a helpful command for you.

The man page (online) is here: http://newton.waglo.com/cgi-bin/dwww...onftool-2.1.gz

gconftool-2 appears to store its keys in a heirarchical manner, reminiscent of the linux file system structure.
This command will list all the keys you can get/set under /desktop/gnome:

$ gconftool-2 --recursive-list /desktop/gnome

Hope that helps!