Changing The Background 3

[iaresean]

Hey there all you unix gurus!

I have quite a tough little question that needs answering. Answers will be rewarded.

I have a nice collection of calvin and hobbes comics on my box, enough to display one a day for the year. At the moment I am trying to write a script that will be executed via cron.daily (I think) that will change my desktop background to the next calvin and hobbes picture.

How would I do this?

My pics have the following naming convention:
ch0001.gif ch0002.gif ch0003.gif ...... ch0365.gif

Any ideas are greatly appreciated, even negative ones. If it can't be done please let me know.

Thanks a bunch.
Sean.

 

[stefanwagner]

Does your machine run overnight?

If you start it every day, you could put the command in the startscripts, before starting your X.

 

[LegoPiMaster]

it usually runs overnight. however, chbg won't even run in pure terminal mode anymore...

$chbg -once

**Gdk-Warning: Could not open display (orsomethinglikethat)

Thanx


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echo `fortune fortunes`$'\b in bed.'
Your lover will never wish to leave you in bed.

 

[stefanwagner]

of course not, but you could replace the bg_image with a daily image daily on startup.

 

[LegoPiMaster]

yeah but i'm trying to get the random gradient feature from chbg w/o storing all couple hundred backgrounds on disk.


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echo `fortune fortunes`$'\b in bed.'
Your lover will never wish to leave you in bed.