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	grog	2008-12-11 , 20:17
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Originally Posted by qole

I don't think rndback needs to be run as user, so you can run it as root without problem.

Unfortunately it does need to be run as 'user'. If run as root I get the error 'cannot connect to x display'.

Another thing I noticed that when I ran the script via cron I'd always get the same small set of images rather than a sampling of my entire pictures folder. The reason for this of course is qole's usage of 'date +%S%S' for a random number in the rndback script. This prints out the current seconds (twice), which is great except when being run via cron at almost the same second each time!

So I came up with this updated version of qole's rndback script. Works for me. See what you think.

Code:

#Pull in the config, if possible...
[ -f /home/user/.wallpaper ] && . /home/user/.wallpaper

#These come from the config file... If not, fall back on defaults
[ "x$IMGTYPE" != x ] || IMGTYPE="jpg\|png\|gif"
[ "x$IMGDIRS" != x ] || IMGDIRS="/home/user/MyDocs/.images /usr/share/backgrounds"
find $IMGDIRS | grep -i "\.\($IMGTYPE\)" > /tmp/wplist.txt
TOTIMGS=`wc -l < /tmp/wplist.txt`

# pick out a random line from the list
RNDIMG=`awk -v tot=$TOTIMGS 'BEGIN {srand();printline=(rand()*10000%tot)+1;printline=substr(printline,1,index(printline,".")-1)} NR==printline' /tmp/wplist.txt`

echo changing to $RNDIMG
setback "$RNDIMG"

HTH

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