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@qole

In your desktop file for "Make Window Transparent", have you thought about adding the -t option? I prefer it because if the window is already transparent, it lets me make the window opaque again easily.

Grog, thanks for clarifications! Indeed, I tried to change 'user' to my normal user id so I would not have to add this before @ when I do ssh but this rendered my NIT unbootable.

Back on my project to change the background based on the time of the day. I've found many nice (environmental) 800x480 backgrounds with potentially can be used for this project. In fact, the page I linked to also contains tags so you can search for backgrounds related to an area (your area? the area where you are?). IMO this type of 'smart' usage of GPS and time is a real killer. Now, I've been able to find a C program which calculates the sunrise and sunset based on long/lat with maths (offline). One could also change this using the GPS, but that might be some thing to do for later. Right now, I would use these with at(1) but this is not included in Maemo so I guess I must use cron which is sub-optimal because I do not know the exact time it will kick in because it differs. I'll also put the script in boot up because the machine might have been down during the time the cron script would kick in.

New version available! 0.3.0

Changes include Grog's good random number generator, and most of the settings moved to the .wallpaper file, so you can tweak transparency and brightness values to find just the right settings for your desktop.

Also, at the last minute , I added qwerty12's suggestion to have the -t in the menu item for setting windows transparent.

I also have the habak line in the /usr/bin/setback script, to use it to add the file name to the wallpaper, you install habak in Easy Debian and then edit setback so that hsetroot is commented out and habak is uncommented.

I figured I post a followup saying thanks because I could only put one thanks on your post.

Does it always have to be that obvious . Of course then I run into yet another speed-bump:

Obviously habak doesn't fallback on a default list of fonts as I hoped. What is it expecting in .fonts file? tx

The .fonts directory is the place for a user to put all of their fonts. Most Linux programs look there for fonts. I have a bunch of .ttf fonts in my .fonts directory, so I didn't notice that error...

You can make a .fonts directory, and put one generic .ttf font file in there, and that should fix things. I think I'll put something like that in the next package.

You do touch ~/.fonts while you should do mkdir ~/.fonts

Well, this is certainly getting me closer, but that elusive carrot is still dangling just out of reach. I did 'ln -s /usr/share/fonts /home/user/.fonts' & now the text shows up (YIPPEE! ) BUT (yah, another one of those ) no picture:

Qole, does the error have anything to do with this problem in the Easy Debian development thread?

grog: I get those errors too, but the picture does show up. If you can see the text on the background, then habak is working, but for some reason, it can't find or display the pictures. Remember that Easy Debian can't see files that aren't in your home drive (/home/user/ and below) or on your SD cards (/media/mmc1 or /media/mmc2 and below). Could that be the problem?

grog: I'm a total idiot. Sorry.

The habak line in the 0.3.0 version is totally missing the part that displays the picture!!

Replace that habak line with (or modify yours to look like):

This is the code I posted, but then I messed about with it (trying to get it to work alongside hsetroot, and failing) and I shipped the messed up version!