Any standard for setting Desktop Background

[Marcos]

On XFCE, IceWM and WindowMaker one can use wmsetbg (from windowmaker) to do the dirty job.
The same wallpaper will be set for all workspaces.

I don't know if it works for other window managers
Marcos Diez



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> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:02:42 -0800
> From: "Dan Nicholson" <dbn.lists at gmail.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] Fix generic case for xdg-terminal
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> xdg-terminal has a couple issues in the generic (xterm) case. First,
> the `which' command setting terminal_exec will always be empty because
> stdout is being redirected to /dev/null. Second, the command is never
> actually attempted to be executed.
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> Attached patch fixed this issue with xterm, at least for a simple
> functional test. -e is needed for the argument passing case. This
> works on xterm, but I don't know about other terminal emulators.
> Perhaps xterm should just be hard-coded for the generic case.
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> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:36:57 +0100
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> Hi i'm developing an app for setting desktop background from a bash  
> script. Do I need to resort to hacks to get it to work with all the major  
> DE's or does it exist a standard like xdg-set-desktop-background to do it?
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> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:55:55 +0900
> From: Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster at rasterman.com>
> Subject: Re: Any standard for setting Desktop Background?
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> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:36:57 +0100 kfs1 at online.no babbled:
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> > Hi i'm developing an app for setting desktop background from a bash  
> > script. Do I need to resort to hacks to get it to work with all the major  
> > DE's or does it exist a standard like xdg-set-desktop-background to do it?
> 
> there is no standard. the thing is a wm or de may even have different wallpapers
> for different parts of the screen (eg xinerama with 2 or 3 heads or more
> viewing 1 root), different wallpapers per virtual desktop (and per screen) or
> per root (in multihead where you have multiple root windows) etc. etc.
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