Am Freitag, 4. Februar 2005 20:55 schrieb stan: > Ah, if twas only so simple :-) > > No, it doesn't matter if I've been loged into the session foe _days_. > KDE seems to have it's mind made up, as to what it wants the > background to be, and anything that changes it will, very shortly, > get overwritten. > > Let's check some basic things, and make certain we are on the same > wavelength. How do you think I should have the background set in the > control panel. to allow the script to change it? Stan, It works for me, I'm using kde-3.4 from CVS. I can either do a "dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper /path/to/image.jpg 1" from the command line, or I put the same line in a shell-script in ~/.kde/Autostart and the background is set on start-up. This is independent of the settings in the control panel. Can be some other picture, or no picture, doesn't matter. AFAICT the dcop-call is in fact calling the same routines as when you change settings by hand. Do you always try to use your script, or have you tried the command-line? If the command-line works, have you tried a minimalistic shell-script? I have checked http://bugs.kde.org but found nothing. Maybe it's a Knoppix specific problem. Rainer ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.