useful for script to be able to alert setbg that something has changed. For
example, a script named rmbg might look at ~/.setbg to get the name of the
current background image file and remove it then signal setbg with SIGUSR1 to
-have it re-evaluate the state of bgdirs.
+have it re-evaluate the state of bgdirs.
Finally setbg will perform the this re-evaluation at midnight everyday. This is
-useful because we point setbg to look at -bgdirs from Dropbox where Camera
+useful because we point setbg to look at -bgdirs from Dropbox where Camera
Uploads is included and new pictures can arrive everyday.
=cut
use strict;
use warnings;
+use experimental qw(signatures);
use FindBin;
use Getopt::Long;
my %totals;
-sub displayStats () {
+sub displayStats() {
my $statsFile = Logger->new(
name => ".$FindBin::Script.stats",
path => $ENV{HOME},
return;
} # displayStats
-sub fillPictures () {
+sub fillPictures($signame = undef) {
my @images;
$totals{bgdirs} = 0;
return @images;
} # fillPictures
-sub writeHistory($) {
- my ($msg) = @_;
-
+sub writeHistory($msg) {
open my $hist, '>>', "$ENV{HOME}/.$FindBin::Script.hist"
or error "Unable to open $ENV{HOME}/.$FindBin::Script.hist for append - $!", 1;
$msg = localtime() . $msg;
- display $msg, $hist;
+ print $hist "$msg\n";
close $hist;
} # writeHistory
-sub updateSetBG($$) {
- my ($bgimage, $lockimage) = @_;
+sub writeSetBG($filename, $image) {
+ open my $file, '>', $filename
+ or error "Unable to open $filename for writing - $!", 1;
- open my $setbg, '>', "$ENV{HOME}/.$FindBin::Script"
- or error "Unable to open $ENV{HOME}/.$FindBin::Script for writing - $!", 1;
+ print $file "$image\n";
- display $bgimage, $setbg;
+ close $file;
+} # writeSetBG
- close $setbg;
+sub updateSetBG($bgimage, $lockimage) {
+ writeSetBG "$ENV{HOME}/.$FindBin::Script", $bgimage;
+ writeSetBG "$ENV{HOME}/.$FindBin::Script.lock", $lockimage;
my $msg = ":$bgimage";
$msg .= " lock:$lockimage" if $opts{lockscreen};
return;
} # updateSetBG
-sub SwitchWallPaper {
+sub SwitchWallPaper($saigname) {
# We don't need to do anything here, just handle the interrupt and
# let the while loop continue.
debug 'SwitchWallPaper: Interrupt received';
'sleep=i',
'lockscreen',
'bgdirs=s@',
+ 'mate',
) || Usage;
local $0 = "$FindBin::Script " . join ' ', @argvCopy;
# Using gsettings
my $setbg = "gsettings";
-my $setbgOpts = "set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri \"file://";
-my $setLockOpts = "set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver picture-uri \"file://";
+
+my ($setbgOpts, $setLockOpts);
+
+if ($opts{mate}) {
+ $setbgOpts = 'set org.mate.background picture-filename ';
+ $setLockOpts = 'set org.mate.screensaver picture-filename ';
+} else {
+ $setbgOpts = "set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri \"file://";
+ $setLockOpts = "set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver picture-uri \"file://";
+} # if
my @images = fillPictures;
} else {
$pickNewImages = 1;
- my $cmd = "$setbg $setbgOpts$bgimage\" 2> /dev/null";
+ my $cmd = $opts{mate} ? "$setbg $setbgOpts\"$bgimage\" 2> /dev/null"
+ : "$setbg $setbgOpts$bgimage\" 2> /dev/null";
($status, @output) = Execute $cmd;
} # if
if ($opts{lockscreen}) {
- $cmd = "$setbg $setLockOpts$lockimage\" 2> /dev/null";
+ $cmd = $opts{mate} ? "$setbg $setLockOpts\"$lockimage\" 2> /dev/null"
+ : "$setbg $setLockOpts$lockimage\" 2> /dev/null";
($status, @output) = Execute $cmd;