On 5/9/20, Dan Hitt <dan.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > With the xfce desktop, there's an application that lets you set the desktop > background. > > Applications > Settings > Desktop > > In the "Background" tab, it lets you set a few items, including a Style, > such as "Scaled", a Color, such as "Horizontal gradient", as well as a > picture that goes in the center of the desktop, with a couple of colors for > the left and right, or top and down, depending on the aspect ratio of the > desktop and the aspect ratio of the picture. > > I would like some way to save the settings, because sometimes it's tricky > to get the colors just right. If i could save the settings, then i could > change the picture and the colors, and then at some time in the future, > revert to just what i had before. > > Perhaps it would be possible to take a screenshot and use it, but that is > less desirable because the information is not in any parsed form (so, e.g., > you could not tweak the panels to the left and right of the image, as they > would be frozen by a screen shot). > > I guess i could keep a text file and copy all the settings to it, including > the color names as 6 character strings like D3D5D0. > > Is there some better way to save the background info?
I found a start, if nothing else! 'Cause I certainly "feel your pain" on finding a perfect custom match that needs saved... for posterity. :) I changed mine then ran grep on ".* -r". This is what I got: .config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-desktop.xml You could make your changes then save a backup copy of that XML file somewhere, even there in that same directory *IF* you trust you'll never accidentally delete those.. *NOT* hidden files. Ask tomas, I think it was, who once explained why they're not really "hidden", per se.. I did see some fields for colors so here's hoping it's an all-in-one package, which it really should be based on its name. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with... a FROST ADVISORY in the middle of May?! runs... and covers up the pretty green bouncing baby grapevines. *