LXDE, desktop icons, & wallpaper

Question

I posted this on the LXDE forum, but have not received an answer.
I like to keep a clean desktop with no icons, but I also like to frequently change my wallpaper. It would seem that you can't have it both ways in LXDE. If I uncheck 'Manage the desktop and show file icons' in PCManFM preferences, the icon goes away, but then if I log out and log back in, my wallpaper is gone.
Anybody find a solution for this? I know this is an LXDE issue, and not an Arch issue, but I'm still wondering if anyone has found a solution.

Answer 1

I'm also a great fan of XFCE4- clean, fast, fullfeatured. There are just two thing that annoy me:
1. panel icons transparency and having it covered by windows without "autohide", ala-KDE4, and
2. wallpaper rotation.
For the first one I found nothing satisfactory, and I'lll wait. for the latter, after trying many too many scripts, I ended up using this one, which is working perfectly:
#!/bin/bash
export PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"
ROTATEDELAY=120
WORKDIR=/tmp/.rotate_wallpaper
FILELIST=$WORKDIR/.imagefiles
# Location of the directories of your image files.
IMAGEFILES="$HOME/wallpapers"
if [ ! -d $WORKDIR ]
then
mkdir $WORKDIR
fi
if [ -e FILELIST ]
then
rm -f FILELIST
fi
# Build file list
for I in $IMAGEFILES
do
find $I -type f \( -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.png' -o -name '*.gif' \)>> $FILELIST
done
# Load list of images into array and remove unneeded file.
oIFS=$IFS IFS=$'\n' LINES=($(<"$FILELIST")) IFS=$oIFS
rm $FILELIST
# Pick random image, set the background, and loop forever.
cd $WORKDIR
while :
do
n=${#LINES[@]}
r=$((RANDOM % n))
IMAGE="`echo ${LINES[r]}`"
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path -s ""
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path -s "${IMAGE}"
killall -USR1 xfdesktop
sleep $ROTATEDELAY
done
Simply change ROTATEDELAY and IMAGEFILES to your likings, and then chmod +x it and put it at a system PATH.
Last edited by scarecrow (2009-06-20 12:13:37)