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Solbu <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">cooker at solbu.net</A>>: +><i> On Tuesday 09 October 2012 02:46, John Balcaen wrote: +</I>>><i> Can you be more precise ? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Sure. +</I>><i> Lets say I create a new user. When he login, I wan't to have a specific wallpaper, that I choose, to be the Default wallpaper. (More specific a Star Trek themed wallpaper.) +</I>><i> Meaning, I should not have to edit some file in the user's homedir in order to make it happen. it must be the Default wallpaper. +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> Like which desktop are you using ? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I use KDE, but I'm hoping to have a solution that is not dependent on which desktop the user use. So it should work in KDE, Gnome, LXDE, IceWM. +</I>><i> When the system was on Mandriva 2010.2, this worked by simply replacing the symlink /usr/share/mdk/backgrounds/default.jpg. +</I> +We changed this for mageia 2 for kde at least because the creation of +default.jpg was broken (user was generally stuck to a 1024*768 +resolution see mga #1309 ) so now we're letting KDE choose the +correction image resolution by providing a « complete » theme set,the +package is mageia-theme-kde-background (introduced in [1] ). +Also for KDE you can configure the « wallpapper » for each activities, +we're doing it for all in [2] +so you can simply edit +/var/lib/mageia/kde4-profiles/common/share/apps/desktoptheme/default/metadata.desktop +to set the default wallpaper you want to use. + +><i> Perhaps I should create my own theme that can be installed from my local custom rpm repo. +</I>><i> Then I need to figure out how to make this to be the default instead of the mageia theme. :-)= +</I> +cf above. + +(I can't answer for GNOME/LXDE & others :/ ) + +[1] <A HREF="http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/mageia-theme/current/SPECS/mageia-theme.spec?r1=100765&r2=125698">http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/mageia-theme/current/SPECS/mageia-theme.spec?r1=100765&r2=125698</A> +[2] <A HREF="http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/mageia-kde4-config/trunk/kde4-profiles/common/share/apps/desktoptheme/default/metadata.desktop?revision=4062&view=markup">http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/mageia-kde4-config/trunk/kde4-profiles/common/share/apps/desktoptheme/default/metadata.desktop?revision=4062&view=markup</A> + +-- +Balcaen John +Jabber-id: <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">mikala at jabber.littleboboy.net</A> +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008802.html">[Mageia-discuss] Changing the Default wallpaper, system wide +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008806.html">[Mageia-discuss] Changing the Default wallpaper, system wide +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8803">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8803">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8803">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8803">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |