#1 2018-01-01 20:57:33

autonerd

New Member

Registered: 2018-01-01

Posts: 1

Can't get wallpaper to rotate with cron

Hi all -- I just replaced the SSD and reinstalled BL on my ThinkPad X131E.

I had rotating wallpaper using cron on my old installation, as outlined here:

https://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic … 27#p212827

Worked like a charm, but on the new installation, the wallpaper isn't rotating -- I get a random wallpaper at boot, but no change. If I run the script manually, the wallpaper changes, but it won't change on its own.

I've tried restarting chron, and it appears that it's working. (I don't have it doing anything else -- my crontab looks exactly like the example given above, with the command line changed for my script.)

I can't remember what, if anything, I did to get it to run on the old system.

Incidentally, I did try FrenchFellow's script:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=2429

It worked, but for some reason when I change the nitrogen command to --set-zoom-fill, it doesn't do the zoom-fill thing.

Anyway, any help would be appreciated -- thanks!

Aaron

tknomanzr

BL Die Hard

From: Around the Bend

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 1,057

Re: Can't get wallpaper to rotate with cron

For random wallpapers, I prefer feh. See @HoaS's post on it below. This is a really simple method:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 046#p25046

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