Add a image to the list of background files in gnome

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In Gnome, when you right click on the desktop background you will get a menu for “Change Desktop backgound. The images displayed in this menu are quite a few but if you want to add your own (read: more than some 5-6 files) then it takes really some time in using the GUI to add them. And if you want to add a few 10’s of file, like say 50 then you are done.

So I wrote a simple script to add the images to the menu from command line. This was a quick script so no checks done, use at your own risk and after taking backup of related files

#Remove the last line from the file.

sed -n ‘$!p’ ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml > /tmp/outfile
mv /tmp/outfile ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml

#Start adding the wallpaper
echo “<wallpaper deleted=\”false\”>” >> ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
echo “    <name>$1</name>” >> ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
echo “    <filename>” >> ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
echo “`pwd`/$1″ >> ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
echo “</filename>” >> ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
echo “    <options>zoom</options>” >> ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
echo “    <shade_type>solid</shade_type>” >> ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
echo “    <pcolor>#76848F</pcolor>” >> ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
echo “    <scolor>#142C3D</scolor>” >> ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml

echo “    </wallpaper>” >> ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml

#Add the last line again
echo “</wallpapers>” >> ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml