For those who want to switch wallpapers easily

["Jonathan Gift" <jgift@wanadoo.fr>]

Hi,

This is trying to give something back to the Debian community which has
already helped me a great deal. It's a small Bash script which allows you to
easily switch backgrounds (root window/desktop). It's obviously for
non-experts such as myself. It works, but if there's suggestions from the
pros, I'd welcome it readily.

xloadimage has to be loaded

1. I place all my images in /usr/local/pics (any directory will do).
2. I have a menu item which does a ls to an xmessage of the pics so I know
what's there.
3. I then use "sbg pic(substitute name)" to switch backgrounds. The jpg can
obviously be changed as well.

Jonathan

Here's the code for the Bash script named sbg:

#! /bin/sh

# Set root window background
# Accepts file name as input
file=$1
xsetbg /usr/local/pics/$1.jpg
clear

There's another, equally sipme one for colors named sbgc:

#!/bin/sh

# Sets root window background color
# Accepts color as string
color=$1
xsetroot -solid $1
clear