Darren Kenny wrote: > Hi Seb, > > Not sure how to make Compiz do what you want, but there may be a workaround... > > If your using GNOME and just want to change the background image, you could do > this using GConf... > > e.g > > gconftool-2 -s -t string /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename <path> > > Of course this also assumes that you configure it to render an image on the > background - you can do this in the Background tab in > gnome-appearance-properties.
Unfortunately, the application I'm using (xplanet) is drawing directly to the root window every N seconds. This works just fine with vanilla Gnome, as I can tell Nautilus to not draw the desktop (with gconf). I don't think there's a way to get xplanet to call gconftool to draw the background (yikes)... -Seb
