[maemo-developers] changing wallpaper

[From: Jussi Kukkonen]

Damien Moore wrote:
> is there an api or set of command line utilities for working with
> background images on the device? i've noticed the image is specified in
> home/user/.osso/hildon-desktop/home-background.conf
> but if i change it, the image won't change until the device is reset. at
> a minimum some way to force the update would do the job.

You have the advantage of working with an open part of the platform...

There seems to be a D-Bus service which I guess is not intended for
this, but which you can maybe abuse:
org.maemo.hildon.background_manager has method SetBackground. It's not
documented, but looking at the source may help you out.

https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/hildon-desktop/background-manager/background-manager.xml.in

I assume you've seen the theming documentation:

http://www.maemo.org/development/documentation/how-tos/4-x/customizing_maemo_and_creating_themes.html


HTH,
 Jussi