Add a image to the list of background files in gnome
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 ”” » ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
echo ”  Â$1 ” » ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
echo ”  ” » ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml ” » ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
echo ”`pwd`/$1” » ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
echo ”
echo ”  Âzoom ” » ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
echo ”   <shade_type>solid</shade_type>” » ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
echo ”  Â#76848F ” » ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
echo ”  Â#142C3D ” » ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xmlecho ”   ” » ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
#Add the last line again
echo ”” » ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml