[ale] quick gnome backgrounds question

[jasonday at worldnet.att.net (Jason Day)]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 10:17:14PM -0400, John Wells wrote:
> Anyone know how to set the gnome desktop background from the command line?
>  Since nautilus is used to draw the desktop, xsetroot won't work.

I've never tried this, but it looks like:
  background-properties-capplet --background-image=IMAGE-FILE

should work.

HTH,
Jason
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