On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:36:57 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: > Hi i'm developing an app for setting desktop background from a bash > script. Do I need to resort to hacks to get it to work with all the major > DE's or does it exist a standard like xdg-set-desktop-background to do it?
there is no standard. the thing is a wm or de may even have different wallpapers for different parts of the screen (eg xinerama with 2 or 3 heads or more viewing 1 root), different wallpapers per virtual desktop (and per screen) or per root (in multihead where you have multiple root windows) etc. etc. > Thank you. > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
