REBOL [ Author: "Shadwolf - Alphé Salas-Schumann" File: %wallp.r Date: 16-01-2011 Title: "Gnome Evolving Wallpaper" Purpose: {change every hours to three hours your gnome's desktop wallpaper with an image of planet Earth real time enlightenment. This script is a one-liner splited for reading purpose } Type: [ tool one-liner ] Domain: [ gui shell] Licence: public-domain Os: "linux mint gnome 10" tested-under: [ view 2.7.8.4.2 ] ] comment { The goal is to have a evolving wallpapper for our gnome desktop works with a crontab that goes with it : in shell type: $> contrab -e then: 5 */3 * * * rebol -q -s /usr/local/bin/wallp.r or for hourly check 5 * * * * rebol -q -s /usr/local/bin/wallp.r then verify the crontab is installed with crontab -l of course you should adapt path in crontab and in the second call line to reflect your hown storage for this file and the dowloaded wallpapper I recommand you to add rebol -q -s /usr/local/bin/wallp.r in a launcher on your desktop. and to add this line in the startup applications. } write/binary %wallpaper.jpg read/binary http://static.die.net/earth/mercator/1600.jpg wait 3 call "gconftool-2 -t str -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_options scaled" call "gconftool-2 -t str -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/local/bin/wallpaper.jpg"