Hello all. please bear in mind that i am a total linux noob.
I'm trying to get fvwm to display a random background image every time i switch to a certain desktop. I somehow managed to bang out a shellscript to be exec'ed by fvwmbacker with the last line being something like "fvwm-root $randomWallpaper".
That was all well and good, but on my slow machine it would take like 5 seconds to switch. I heard about using colorsets to pre-cache wallpapers, but then how do i call up a random colorset? fvwm-root won't take a colorset as an argument. my second try was to use piperead. as in "fvwmbacker (desk 0) piperead randColorset.sh" with the last line of randColorset being like "echo $randomColorset" It doesn't work.
if i am understanding this correctly, "echo" sends the string to standard out which piperead redirects to fvwmbacker. what am i doing wrong? i know piperead works because im using it to read the output of a script that looks in my wallpaper folder and assigns the wallpapers to colorsets. and i know the colorsets work because i can say like "fvwmbacker (desk 0) colorset 80"
and it will change to the wallpaper assigned to colorset 80 in the script.
any help is appreciated
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