Well, as in the topic: (how) can I change my wallpaper with DBUS (or at least any other command line tool)?. With KDE 3 and dcop it was something like:

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dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper /path/to/your/wallpaper.png 8

(8 describes your wallpaper display mode... as far as I remember).

Currently I'm trying to figure it out with dbuscli ( http://code.google.com/p/dbus-tools/ ) but I'm failing so far. I guess it's something like:

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dbus org.kde.plasma /App Set ... ... ....

but I have completely no idea where to look for this option (plasma doc for this topic is quite ... empty, and greping plasma sources apparently also isn't a way to find it :)

werner wrote:Well, as in the topic: (how) can I change my wallpaper with DBUS (or at least any other command line tool)?

currently you can't; we just brought in wallpaper plugins for 4.2, which is a first step towars making them odular and more easily controlled in a reliable way from the outside.

exporting the API for all the useful internals in plasma have not yet been written, however.

Thanks for your quick response. Good to know since I was going to spend more time googling/trying to figure it out from sources :)

aseigo wrote:

werner wrote:Well, as in the topic: (how) can I change my wallpaper with DBUS (or at least any other command line tool)?

currently you can't; we just brought in wallpaper plugins for 4.2, which is a first step towars making them odular and more easily controlled in a reliable way from the outside.

exporting the API for all the useful internals in plasma have not yet been written, however.

Will controls for hue and gradients also be added then? In KDE3 I use dcop to set the hue of the desktop depending on the allert level of my surveillance system, which is very usefull for me.