Re: [rox-devel] Pinboard backdrop -- make optional?

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 01:46:41AM -0500, Matthew Weier OPhinney wrote:
> -- Matthew Weier OPhinney <wei...@gr...> wrote
[...]
> Okay, so what I've done now is to write a script (did it in perl;
> probably could have done it in bash) that bsetbg calls:
>     setRoxBg [-tile|-center|-full] imagename
> 
> setRoxBg then removes all images found in
> {CHOICESPATH}/Wallpaper/(Tiled|Centred|Scaled) and links the new image
> in the appropriate directory. Finally, it calls Wallpaper, at which poin
> the user needs to Activate the "random" image, which sets the
> background.
> 
> It's a hack, admittedly... but it will certainly work for now, until I
> figure out how to write an AppDir that can set the backdrop with only an
> image as its argument.

What about running Choices/ROX-Filer/pb_Default through a sed script to
set <backdrop style="tile">image</backdrop>? It would only work if you
did it on login before running the filer, of course.

Otherwise, I suppose we could add a new SOAP message.


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