Refreshing the Background in XFCE4.6

mprimrose · **Posted:** Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:01 am

Its one of the minor issues, with the new release of XFCE, but the ability to use the command

Code:

xfdesktop --reload

to change the backgound image you were using, from a configured list, was broken, or didn't work. There is however a new hack that has been posted on the XFCE News that allows you to continue to do this

Code:

#!/bin/sh
MONITOR=${1:-0}
PROPERTY="/backdrop/screen0/monitor${MONITOR}/image-path"
IMAGE_PATH=`xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p ${PROPERTY}`
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p ${PROPERTY} -s ""
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p ${PROPERTY} -s "${IMAGE_PATH}"

I saved this as an executable file in /usr/local/bin called refresh, and now I can change my backgrounds to my hearts content. Much and many thanks to the contributor to the XFCE News for, at least for me, a very useful hack $\!D/$ $\!D/$

The link is

[url]
http://blog.xfce.org/2009/03/11/
[/url]

Regards

Michael

Refreshing the Background in XFCE4.6

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