[SOLVED] Xfce and gtk-sunlight (rsw in the AUR)

I'm yet another refugee from Gnome 3. I've got Xfce set up almost exactly the same after a day of fiddling, but I can't figure out this thing, and there's nothing on google or the forums about it.
I'm trying to use the Realtime Sunlight Wallpaper app that updates the desktop background every 30 minutes. I assumed, it being gtk, that it would work in Xfce, but it doesn't appear at all. When I run it from the command line it seems like it's running fine with no errors. I feel like I'm missing something huge. Can someone tell me if this is even possible with the way Xfce does the background vs Gnome?
Thanks!
Last edited by JohnnyRogers (2011-05-12 21:55:04)

I've had a look at this and rsw uses this command to change the wallpaper:
gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
(+ the actual filename appended.)
Under Xfce, xfDesktop is responsible for displaying the background, and it probably doesn't care much about gnome settings...
Try changing the code in support.h from
#define GCONF_SET_WALLPAPER "gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename"
to
#define GCONF_SET_WALLPAPER "xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path -s"
It should work... However there are other commands (GCONF_SET_PICTURE_OPTIONS, etc. in support.h) that you may have to change to fix everything.

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