> -----Mensaje original----- > De: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En nombre de > Martti Kühne > Enviado el: martes, 23 de abril de 2013 13:39 > Para: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Asunto: Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3.8 and desktop background > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Karol Babioch <karol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] > > > > I guess you are using some sort of an extension to get "icons on the > > desktop"? > > > > That "sort of an extension" is nautilus' (imo annoying) property to > create its "desktop window" when it's not already there. To set a > desktop background there you need to tell gnome and nautilus instead > of wmsetbg/feh/display what desktop background you wish. There seems > to be a gconftool-2 way to do that properly [0]. > > cheers! > mar77i > > [0] http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-244297.html I'm using the following script. I don't remember where I found it. I call it from a cron job. #!/usr/bin/bash # Script to rotate GNOME 3 wallpapers export $(xargs -n 1 -0 echo </proc/$(pidof gnome-session)/environ | grep -Z DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=) PICTUREDIR=/home/gleira/backgrounds/ NEWBACKGROUND="$(ls "$PICTUREDIR" | shuf -n1)" uri=file://"$PICTUREDIR$NEWBACKGROUND" GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "$uri" GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options "scaled" Regards, Guillermo