Quick wallpaper change

[cagliostro]

I had trouble changing the background wallpaper. The default wallpaper is ~/Choices/ROX-background.jpg, so I simply renamed my wallpaper to ROX-background.jpg and copied it to ~/Choices/ (ie $home/Choices/).

Then I got a better idea. I put 15 wallpapers into a "wallpaper" folder on the hard drive, and made a copy of one of them as "ROX-background.jpg".

Using the middle mouse button, "move" this ROX-background.jpg to the folder ~/Choices/, and click "create absolute symbolic link."

In ~/Choices, delete the original ROX-background.jpg, leaving the ROX-background.jpg you just created as a sym link (it has a little arrow).

When you restart X the new, linked wallpaper is used.

Now to quick change wallpaper, simply go into the wallpaper folder, find one that fits your mood for the day, right click on it and select copy. Copy to "ROX-background.jpg". Since this already exists, answer "yes" to overwrite. Restart X and the new wallpaper takes effect.

[HairyWill]

I'm confused.
There is a wizard to set the background already and you don't need to restart X. Am I missing something.

[MU]

ROX-background.jpg is overwritten with a new file, when you set the background with Puppys backgroundsetter.
Mark

[cagliostro]

Sorry, I had trouble getting the background changer to work. Must be my problem.

[EdFromHouston]

From what I've read, on some machines the background setter doesn't work right although I can't confirm this on mine. I think I read renaming your wallpaper for the day to 'default.jpg then using the background setter solves the problem.

On 2.13 I put my wallpaper in /usr/share/backgrounds and use the background setting tool and it works on my machine without renaming the jpg.