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changing image from a program as desktop background

Asked by Josh Marshall

I'd like to get a program called "graphical disk map" as my desktop background. I don't know what's involved with this, and I can guess that a similar question has been asked somewhere before (I can't find it off hand, bad google search?). I'd be willing to code to get this to work, but I have no idea where to start.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

Maybe a start there.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gdmap/
http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/gdmap

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Josh Marshall (macassistant202) said : 		#2

Ideas for the desktop end? I don't think that Unity will be involved with that part, but I don't know that much about unity.

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Josh Marshall (macassistant202) said : 		#3

Sorry for a double post, new to this system. This did not completely answer my question.

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Best mycae (mycae) said : 		#4

You would probably need to modify the program gdmap to output an image, rather than be an application.

Then use something like this: http://wallpapoz.akbarhome.com/download.html to instruct the desktop to change the background to the generated image from your modified gdmap.

This is not trivial.

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Josh Marshall (macassistant202) said : 		#5

Thanks mycae, that solved my question.