A carbon-based lifeform named stan wrote: > I'm trying to convert from Gnome (1.4) to KDE (3.7). Jesus. Gnome 1.4... Was I even _born_ back then? :-) KDE 3.7, eh? Maybe you've met my kids who aren't even born yet :-) > In Gnome, I have a perl script that is started up with the equivelant of > autorun. It then selects a random iamge from a directory of images, and > uses xv to set the root X window to that image. Works like a charm. > > I've tried several things to try to get KDE to emualte this behavior, but I > cna't seem to figure out how to get it to just leave the background > untouched. Is this possible? If not, I'll follow up with another question > about how to change the behavior of the closest thing I've foundin KDE. > > Thanks. Joking apart, if you select "configure desktop", go to background, and then select "Slide Show", you have your behaviour! Of course, this applies to 3.3.2, i don't know about others.... have fun -- yourself The day Microsoft builds something that doesn't suck is the day they build a vacuum cleaner ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.