I got bored the other day and wanted to see if I could set up a way to randomly
change the background image in GNOME from a directory of jpg files.
change the background image in GNOME from a directory of jpg files.
After a bit of experimentation, I came up with this:
gconftool -t str -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename “`find
“$BACKGROUND_DIR” -name *.jpg | random | tail -n 1`”
Link: Gnome Hacks