By the way there is a guide to using scop to control the desktop here: http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_desktop_guides/kde_desktop_user_guide/scripting-the-desktop.html
On Mon, February 4, 2008 9:51 am, Nick Rout wrote: > Well I already made a suggestion that you ignored. > > compare the contents of ~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc before and after > you try to change the background. > > The easiest way to do this is probably to make a backup: > > mv ~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc ~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc~ > > use the gui to make the change and then: > > diff ~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc~ ~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc > > If the difference is carried into the file, then its not a permissions > file, its something else. > > Also you could try to change the background programmatically like this: > > dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper filename 1 > > where filename is the name of the file you want to use as wallpaper. See > if it gives any error. > > If it doesn't work or give any useful errors then try runnig it with > strace. (see the recent thread started by John Carter). > -- Nick Rout
