Set default background image on Fedora's KDE desktop

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Mon Nov 29 09:45:03 UTC 2010


On Friday, November 26, 2010 02:32:08 pm Danishka Navin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I used following in my kickstart file to set my own background image for a
> Fedora 14 based remix.
> 
> But it was not changing the default baground image for KDE Desktop. Still
> showing Fedora default (default wallpaper of official fedora release)
> background Image.
> 
> Highly appreciate if you could tell me how to fix this.
> 
> gconftool-2 --direct  --config-source=xml:readwrite:
> /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults -s  -t string
> /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
> /path/to/your/wallpaper >/dev/null

Hi,
Plasma does not utilize gconf - kde-settings package is your friend. You can find 
Fedora specific settings there, so you should check it out from fedorahosted.org 
(upstream for KDE related settings) to create a new one for your remix.

Jaroslav

> Thanks,

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