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Commands tagged wallpaper

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wallpaperWarn() { BG="/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename"; convert "`gconftool-2 -g $BG`" -pointsize 70 -draw "gravity center fill red text 0,-360 'Warn' fill white text 0,360 'Warn'" /tmp/w.jpg; gconftool-2 --set $BG -t string "/tmp/w.jpg"; }
2011-09-07 19:00:40
User: totti
Tags: image wallpaper text
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Text message on wallpaper

Display some text on the wallpaper especially warning messages

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gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri 'file://<path-to-image>'
2011-06-05 15:38:16
User: scripteles
Functions: set
Tags: gnome wallpaper gnome-shell gnome3
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Change gnome-shell wallpaper
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gconftool-2 -t str -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "$(find ~/Wallpapers -type f | shuf -n1)"
2010-09-21 04:01:55
User: zed
Tags: wallpaper crontab
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Set random background image in gnome

Changes your desktop background image in gnome. Update the directory to wherever you keep your wallpapers. I like to create a sub-directory in my Wallpaper folder called "cycle" that I use to define the wallpapers I wish to loop in cron. ex:

gconftool-2 -t str -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "$(find ~/Wallpapers/cycle -type f | shuf -n1)"
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for i in ~/Desktop/Personal/Wallpapers/*.jpg ; { size=$((`identify -format "%wx%h" $i | sed 's/x/*/'`)) ; if [[ $size -lt 800001 ]] then ; rm -f "$i" ; fi; }
2009-10-16 00:21:21
User: cbrinker
Functions: rm sed
Tags: identify wallpaper zsh dimensions
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A quick shell command to weed out the small wallpapers

For all of the jpgs in a directory, determine their size and if below a threshold remove them forcefully.

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gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename <path_to_image>
2009-04-29 11:19:29
User: cammarin
Tags: gnome gconftool wallpaper
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Change Gnome wallpaper

You can use this in a script which rotates wallpapers from a directory at each login.

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