On Sat, 12 May 2012 23:33:14 +0530, Kevin Krammer <krammer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Saturday, 2012-05-12, hbprotoss wrote:
Hello everybody.
I'd like to ask whether "dcop" tool is not available on KDE 4.8 any
more?
I want to change wallpapers automatically, but no suitable tools have
been found. I checked the wikipedia, found DCOP protocol, and it says
dcop command-line tool can help, but I can't find it on KDE 4.8.
DCOP (desktop communication protocol) was KDE's means of communicating
between
processes during the KDE 3 series.
In order to facilitate more collaboration with other Free Software
desktop
projects, the version 4 series switched to D-Bus which then even got
support
in Qt4 itself.
There are several D-Bus command line tools available, e.g. dbus-send
(from the
core D-Bus package) or qdbus (from Qt, package "qdbus").
The latter has a similar behavior like the dcop command line tool, e.g.
invoking it without any argument shows the known D-Bus connections
(programs
using D-Bus) and so on.
There is also an UI tool calls qdbusviewer, package qt4-dev-tools, which
makes
exploring available interfaces easier than repeatedly calling the
commandline
tool.
qdbuviewer is great, but if the OP only wants to change wallpapers, that's
already included in plasma-desktop, no? folder view, grid, and 'normal'
desktop at least can be configured to use 'slideeshow' instead of an
image, and the folder(s) the images come from can be configured, as can
the time each remains as background.
since the OP seems to come from KDE3, perhaps he doesn't know about this
yet...
--
phani.
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