Jerry Geis wrote:
I centos 5 I can run this command: su myuser -c "/usr/bin/gconftool-2 -t string --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/backgrounds/images/mypic.png"
and this works fine.
under centos 6 it does not appear to be working... I can run the similiar --get command and it tells me its set to what I asked for. However the screen is not showing mypic.png I can use gconf-editor to set it manually and it works. I looked to see if gconfd-2 is running and it is.
What might be happening that the screen is not changing and showing the actual pic?
Thanks,
Jerry
My script works fine on centos5 - its centos 6 its not working on.
This issue seems to be related to dbus. gconftool-2 now uses dbus and when running commands like from cron to talk to the running X session its not happening correctly.
I found some posts thats talks about setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and that seems to work "sometimes" but not always.
Was wondering if anyone has run into this also and if there is a good fix?
Jerry