[NCLUG] wallpaper

[Daniel Miles]

Try running it as root, that just means grep couldn't get at some of
those dirs

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 13:52, Elena Jakubikova wrote:
> Thanks to those who replied,
> 
> >Can you briefly describe the "standard methods"?
> 
> >Sean Roberts
> 
> By this I mean using KDE control center to configure desktop environment, I 
> also tried the same in gnome. Maybe it will help to say that OS is Red Hat 
> Linux 7.2 (upgraded from 6.0).
> 
> >There are lots of places they could be loading it. The display >manager 
> >could be doing it or the X session manager, or the gnome >session manager 
> >etc. Try and see if you can find where the file lives >using locate (you 
> >might need to run updatedb first) or find using >strings like "dell" "jpg" 
> >etc. Once you find the image you'll have a >name that you can look for in 
> >the various configuration files. >Assuming it loads for every user I would 
> >start looking in
> >/etc. So if the file was named "dell-1280.jpg" you could try a >recursive 
> >grep like,
> 
> >rgrep "dell-1280.jpg" /etc
> 
> >Good luck,
> 
> >--
> >Matt Taggart
> 
> I found the image location and run
> 'grep -r dell-grayfade-back.gif /etc' and this what I got:
> 
> grep: /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K15sound: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K15sound: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/K15sound: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S85sound: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S50inet: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S85sound: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S85sound: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K15sound: No such file or directory
> /etc/skel/.gnome/Background:wallpaper=/usr/share/pixmaps/dell/dell-grayfade-back
> .gif
> /etc/skel/.gnome/Background:wallpaper0=/usr/share/pixmaps/dell/dell-grayfade-bac
> k.gif
> /etc/skel/.kde/share/config/desktop0rc:Wallpaper=dell-grayfade-back.gif
> /etc/skel/.kde/share/config/desktop1rc:Wallpaper=dell-grayfade-back.gif
> /etc/skel/.kde/share/config/desktop2rc:Wallpaper=dell-grayfade-back.gif
> /etc/skel/.kde/share/config/desktop3rc:Wallpaper=dell-grayfade-back.gif
> grep: /etc/rc0.d/K15sound: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/rc1.d/K15sound: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/rc2.d/K15sound: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/rc3.d/S85sound: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/rc4.d/S50inet: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/rc4.d/S85sound: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/rc5.d/S85sound: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/rc6.d/K15sound: No such file or directory
> 
> Unfortunately I am not sure what to do about it next. Sorry to bother you 
> but if you could explain some more that would really help.
> 
> Elena
> 
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