xfdesktop -V This is xfdesktop version 4.11.3, running on Xfce 4.10. Built with GTK+ 2.24.22, linked with GTK+ 2.24.22. Build options: Desktop Menu: enabled Desktop Icons: enabled Desktop File Icons: enabled Please see the details listed at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfdesktop4/+bug/1293287 FWIW, the option to change the background "every hour" does sort of what I want, it changes every <hour>:00. It would be nice if that feature could be expanded to that, plus every N minutes after the hour, perhaps only for divisors of 60 to keep the math easy ...
Same experience here. I use the reload feature to update my desktop on demand based on events. As a workaround I'm creating duplicate background images in a directory and tell the desktop to switch every ten seconds. This is works but it's not synchronized with the event and it seems like an unnecessary use of resources to constantly update the image whether it's needed or not.
Created attachment 5576 Add a --next option to force wallpaper changes This proposed patch adds a --next option to advance the wallpaper on the desktop. This way you can change the background based on things other than time. It also won't reload the menu and all the desktop icons just to change the wallpaper.
Pushed to master in: commit 318996b92055b1ed40cff4bd35f4534e0db3dcc3 Author: Eric Koegel <eric.koegel@gmail.com> Date: Fri Aug 1 10:03:27 2014 +0300 Add a --next option to force wallpaper changes (Bug 10754) Several users have external scripts telling xfdesktop when to change the wallpaper. This patch adds a --next option so that users can advance the wallpaper on the current workspace when they want with those scripts, rather than being limited to only the time based events that are built into xfdesktop. http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit/?id=318996b92055b1ed40cff4bd35f4534e0db3dcc3
Marking as resolved.