Re: Opening apps in the background

From: <captgoodnight@acsalaska.net>
Date: Wed Aug 04 2004 - 20:49:38 AKDT

On Wednesday 04 August 2004 07:53 pm, James Zuelow wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 08:50:15 -0800
>
> captgoodnight@acsalaska.net wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 August 2004 06:57 am, James Zuelow wrote:
> >
> > Please forgive me, I kinda jumped into the middle of this thread. How
> > about qiv?
> >
> > qiv -x pic.jpg
> >
> > My suggestion is probably totally off base. lol
>
> It doesn't quite work with KDE and a desktop background - looks to me like
> it shows up behind the KDE desktop. I experimented with the -G switch, but
> that didn't work either (probably because I wasn't launching it in
> fullscreen mode).
>
> But qiv comes up even faster than xslideshow, so I'm still happy.
>
> And anyone that copied that script, there are two bugs in it - the second
> find command doesn't look in Resources, and the section that creates the
> refresh and next page links should be checking to see if l (el) is less
> than h, not if i (eye) is less than h.

Alright, I think I got it. I found the dcop call for the kde background. This works here.
Again, I really don't know what this thread started as,lol. But since my qiv idear was
close, I might aswell give this too.lol. This is also good info. This works here, changing
my background from the command line to any file chosen.

dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper /full/path/to/file.jpg 1

bests, hope it helps.
eddie

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