Hi /comp/, do you guys know of a program that will automatically change my desktop background at a set time?
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Anonymous2006-02-28 2:50
huddledmasses.org i think that guy has written one
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Anonymous2006-02-28 3:11
KDE has one built in, I used to use it to cycle through animu backgrounds.
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Anonymous2006-02-28 3:50
>>1
Script it, it's not hard... for either KDE, Gnome, Windows NT, etc.
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Anonymous2006-02-28 4:31
windows desktop background scripting? how?
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Anonymous2006-02-28 18:17
Your desktop is set in the HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper registry key, a REG_SZ, set to a file. Have a script on boot (HKLM or HKCU \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run) that will get a file from a directory randomly (glob, then select randomly) and set it there so it's displayed the next time.
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Anonymous2006-03-01 7:57
>>6
Windows doesn't monitor that registry key for changes so the change won't be immediate, only next time explorer.exe is restarted (e.g. when user logs in)
FAIL
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Anonymous2006-03-01 10:07
>>7
Your brains fail. I said it will be set for the next time you log in, not immediately. But if you are running this script all the time, you'll effectively get a new desktop every time, stupid.