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horovsky is offline horovsky
2011-02-12 , 21:46
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Dears,
after 3 weeks of using N900 I've realized this is the best phone I've ever had (I can compare to 6 older Nokia models, iPhone 3G, Samsung galaxy and HTC hd2).
Thanks to all of you I have made a lot of changes and personalised my N900, so thank you very much for that, for your time and for this forum! Really!

I have also started to play with Debian, command line,DCEW etc, just simply say with Linux at all, it's absolutely new for me. My last programming experience is 20 years ago with basic and pascal :-)

ok, now about question. I'd like to have a different background image sets for worktime, freetime, weekend etc. Not different icons or whole themes, just different imagesets would be very nice.
I was searching like a devil but not found the answer.

Is there exist any widget to tap it and change "immediately" background imagesets from defined folder? or program which change the imagesets based on defined schedule? or something similar? (program which change the random picture a a background every 10secs is not what I'm looking for...

thank you very much if you can help me or kick me in right direction:-)
Miroslav
 
topet2k12001 is offline topet2k12001
2011-02-13 , 01:38
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Originally Posted by horovsky View Post
Dears,
after 3 weeks of using N900 I've realized this is the best phone I've ever had (I can compare to 6 older Nokia models, iPhone 3G, Samsung galaxy and HTC hd2).
Thanks to all of you I have made a lot of changes and personalised my N900, so thank you very much for that, for your time and for this forum! Really!

I have also started to play with Debian, command line,DCEW etc, just simply say with Linux at all, it's absolutely new for me. My last programming experience is 20 years ago with basic and pascal :-)

ok, now about question. I'd like to have a different background image sets for worktime, freetime, weekend etc. Not different icons or whole themes, just different imagesets would be very nice.
I was searching like a devil but not found the answer.

Is there exist any widget to tap it and change "immediately" background imagesets from defined folder? or program which change the imagesets based on defined schedule? or something similar? (program which change the random picture a a background every 10secs is not what I'm looking for...

thank you very much if you can help me or kick me in right direction:-)
Miroslav
Hi Friend,

There's an application from the Application Manager called "Desktop Activity Switcher"...not sure if this fits your requirements. That's what I'm using to do a similar thing to what you have described.
 
Mentalist Traceur is offline Mentalist Traceur
2011-02-13 , 01:57
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I think desktop activity switcher just changes desktop widget layouts?

Should be reasonably easy to script a desktop wallpaper change, slap a GUI on it, and package it. Not that I'd be one to have the skills to do it, but from a technical perspective, if you can already write a program, the actual technical bits should be easy for this particular task.
 
Nokia 5700 is offline Nokia 5700
2011-02-13 , 11:01
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There are GConf-keys for this. I'll investigate if it will update the background when it's changed.
If it works the way I expect it to, this will be a piece of cake.
I'll report back on it.
 

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JonWW is offline JonWW
2011-02-13 , 11:18
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Try using a Queen Beecon Widget for each background set you want, and put some code like this:
Code:
cp "/path/to/background/image-1.png" "/home/user/.backgrounds/background-1.png"
cp "/path/to/background/image-2.png" "/home/user/.backgrounds/background-2.png"
cp "/path/to/background/image-3.png" "/home/user/.backgrounds/background-3.png"
cp "/path/to/background/image-4.png" "/home/user/.backgrounds/background-4.png"
to activate on a click event. This way is far quicker and less resource hungry way of doing things than when using GConf-keys.
 
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F2thaK is offline F2thaK
2011-02-13 , 11:33
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Live wallpaper:
you can set wallpapers on timer
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