Gerhard,
On 15 October 2015 at 16:50, Gerhard Wolfstieg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since debian stretch you don't have wmakerconf anymore and wprefs
> doesn't provide it, I have to edit a file (probably
> ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker) to get different background images per
> Workspace.
> But I cannot find any documentation on this.
a few months ago I opened a thread here on that same subject. I wrote a
little shell script that I run via .xinitrc - it selects background images
from a directory and changes them randomly - each workspace gets its own
image. You can send a SIGHUP to trigger immediate change of wallpapers. The
script has its limits (e.g. the number of workspaces, timeout for changing
wallpapers and the image directory are hard-coded), but it has been working
like a charm for me ever since I set it up. You may take a look at this
code:
#!/bin/sh
SLEEP_PID=0
trigger() {
echo "Triggering new wallpapers..."
if [ $SLEEP_PID -gt 0 ]; then
CMD="kill $SLEEP_PID"
echo "$CMD"
$CMD
fi
}
quit() {
echo quit
exit 0
}
trap trigger SIGHUP
trap quit SIGTERM
cd /usr/local/share/backgrounds/Variety/
while true; do
w=0
date
find . | sed 's/^\.\///' | sort -R | while read i; do
test -d "$i" && continue
case "$i" in
keep-ratio*)
CMD="wmsetbg -f -w $w"
;;
*)
CMD="wmsetbg -w $w"
;;
esac
echo "$CMD $i"
$CMD "$i"
w=`expr $w + 1`
if [ $w -gt 6 ]; then
break
fi
done
sleep 10m &
SLEEP_PID=$!
wait $SLEEP_PID
done
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