[rox-users] Re: Set as wallpaper

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Matthew Weier O'Phinney ha scritto:
> On 4/28/05, glenn <gle...@ad...> wrote:
> 
>>I use XFCE4.2 & Rox for the pinboard on a live cd.  Since Rox manages
>>the background how would one set the background from command line?  My
>>intention is to have a 'Set As Wallpaper' option but I could not figure
>>a way to do this.  Thanks.
> 
> 
> Basically, you send an RPC call to ROX
> 
> rox --RPC << EOF
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope">
>  <env:Body xmlns="http://rox.sourceforge.net/SOAP/ROX-Filer">
>   <SetBackdrop>
>    <Filename>/path/to/wallpaper/image</Filename>
>    <Style>Stretch</Style>
>   </SetBackdrop>
>  </env:Body>
> </env:Envelope>
> EOF

#!/bin/sh
test -z "$1" \
  && echo "usage: `basename $0` filename [Stretch|Tile|Centre|Scale]" \
  && exit
dirname $1 | egrep ^\\/.*\$ || PREFIX="`pwd`/"
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:env=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope\">
  <env:Body xmlns=\"http://rox.sourceforge.net/SOAP/ROX-Filer\">
   <SetBackdrop>
    <Filename>$PREFIX$1</Filename>
    <Style>${2:-Stretch}</Style>
   </SetBackdrop>
  </env:Body>
</env:Envelope>" | rox --RPC

works better (coreutils rulez).
by the way: where these RPC command are documented?

ciao,
Federico