your KDE (screenshots)

[toad]

Re: your KDE (screenshots)

Hey, no more dark screenshots with an open dolphin? Just curious...

@dibl
How do you mean "automate wallpaper selection"? The only issue with conky afaik is if you have changing wallpapers every so often - you read something in there which can cope with that? I'm all ears... Not that I have changing wallpapers, but one has got to think ahead just in case

[Snowhog]

Re: your KDE (screenshots)

Hey hey indeed! That is an excellent tutorial! I think I see a way to automate the wallpaper selection so I can skip the manual edit every time I change it. Nice one, toad!

Are you referring to this line:

{exec feh --bg-scale "`grep 'wallpaper=' ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc | tail --lines=1 | sed 's/wallpaper=//'`"}

[dibl]

Re: your KDE (screenshots)

Yep, that's the one. Although, on closer inspection, it looks like I'd have to put my wallpaper in the plasma-desktop-appletsrc to make it work. Right? hmmm, that's not a familiar file for me -- I'm not sure what it's doing.

[toad]

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Well spotted, snowhog! I must confess I haven't read that wiki page for some time (and they do maintain them well over at arch).

As for that file:

toad@archtop 1003\6 /home/toad > wc ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
228 193 4318 /home/toad//.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc

Ah, 228 lines of mystery

[Snowhog]

Re: your KDE (screenshots)

Yep, that's the one. Although, on closer inspection, it looks like I'd have to put my wallpaper in the plasma-desktop-appletsrc to make it work. Right? hmmm, that's not a familiar file for me -- I'm not sure what it's doing.

Check that file. It's dynamicly updated. When you change your desktop wallpaper via Desktop Activity Settings, the wallpaper you choose is reflected in this file.

You'll need to just give it a test to see if it works. Note, you will need to change ~/.kde4/ of the line to ~/.kde/

[DeathKitten]

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The desktop image came from Digital Blasphemy. One of these days, I will get a subscription, but for now I've been making due with the free samples. So pretty. Dude makes wallpapers made specifically for multi-screens setups, and there's one with dinosaur plants and a mushroom cloud I've been drooling over since I saw it.

[Snowhog]

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Digital Blaphemy. Yes, very nice wallpapers. I've grabbed a few from him myself.

[toad]

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Funky font, Death Kitten, funky font!

[dibl]

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You'll need to just give it a test to see if it works. Note, you will need to change ~/.kde4/ of the line to ~/.kde/

Yeah, I fixed the .kde name, and tested. Hmmmm, no soap -- it's coming up black background. I think the problem may be in this expression:

's/wallpaper=//'

What is that pointing to -- I wonder if my location of the conkymain file in ~/Conky/ is a problem?

[toad]

Re: your KDE (screenshots)

~/Conky/ is odd afaik. Pertinent files are:

~/.conkyrc
/etc/conky/conky.conf

[dibl]

Re: your KDE (screenshots)

I think I see the problem. Conky is looking for an image file name. On my sidux KDE 4 desktop, the line in ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc that begins with "wallpaper=" does not point to a file, it points to a folder (wallpaper=/usr/share/wallpapers/sidux-momos). Moreover, with KDE 4, I see in the plasma-desktop-appletsrc file that a user-selected image that is off in some other directory (i.e. the partition where I keep my images) is a line above the "wallpapers=" line (userswallpapers=/home/dibl/IMAGES/Wallpapers/eastfrom3churches_1600x1200.png). So that grep/sed expression is not going to work as-is. But it's a good idea -- if I were more of a programmer I could probably patch it up to where it would work.

[toad]

Re: your KDE (screenshots)

Yeah, knowing sed is like having the universe at your mercy. I wish there were an icon for that...

[dibl]

Re: your KDE (screenshots)

I think I see the problem. Conky is looking for an image file name. On my sidux KDE 4 desktop, the line in ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc that begins with "wallpaper=" does not point to a file, it points to a folder (wallpaper=/usr/share/wallpapers/sidux-momos). Moreover, with KDE 4, I see in the plasma-desktop-appletsrc file that a user-selected image that is off in some other directory (i.e. the partition where I keep my images) is a line above the "wallpapers=" line (userswallpapers=/home/dibl/IMAGES/Wallpapers/eastfrom3churches_1600x1200.png). So that grep/sed expression is not going to work as-is. But it's a good idea -- if I were more of a programmer I could probably patch it up to where it would work.

EDIT: OK, got it. This works:

${texeci 1000 feh --bg-scale "`grep 'userswallpapers=' ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc | tail --lines=1 | sed 's/userswallpapers=//'`"}

At least it does on sidux KDE4. I took a look at the plasma-desktop-appletsrc file on my Kubuntu system, and was somewhat amazed to find every wallpaper I have ever used for that desktop appended one after the other, with the current one last. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I doubt that is how it was intended to work. But my little conky hack should work on that, even as it is.

[toad]

Re: your KDE (screenshots)

And if this thread is good for nothing else

Glad you got it sorted!

[dibl]

Re: your KDE (screenshots)

Heh -- yep, you gotta come to Kubuntu Forums to learn how to have a conky that will automatically change its background to match your personal KDE 4 wallpaper!

Thanks for thinking of it, toad!