NAME

bgrot — a program to alleviate background boredom

SYNOPSIS

background.sh

createlist.sh

DESCRIPTION

The bgrot suite consists of a set of scripts to handle background image rotation. The user interface scripts are Bourne shell (/bin/sh) scripts, while the backends are implemented in Perl 5. The primary user interfaces are provided by two scripts: background.sh and createlist.sh.

background.sh

background.sh is the meat of bgrot. It is the script that handles the randomization of the background image list, and the rotation of the images. Users may override the system defaults with a config file in their home directory. $CONFDIR, which is where the system defaults live, is normally /usr/local/etc, though that maybe have been changed by your system administrator on installation. The file $CONFDIR/bgrot.conf contains the system-wide defaults for bgrot, which can be overriden by creating the file $BGROTDIR/conf/bgrot.conf, (though $HOME/.bgrotrc is accepted for backward compatibility) and inserting the settings you wish to override into it. Most of the settings are self-explanatory, the rest can be easily understood by a cursory examination of the scripts.

createlist.sh

createlist.sh Is a utility used to prepare the list of background images for background.sh. All per-user information for bgrot is kept in $BGROTDIR, which is normally $HOME/.bgrot. The createlist.sh program creates the image list from the images in $BGROTDIR/images (which can be a symlink or a directory of symlinks), and puts the output list into the file $BGROTDIR/conf/master.background.list. Note that createlist.sh ONLY includes files with the extensions stated in the bgrot.conf file (either global or individual), and WILL recurse through subdirectories of $BGROTDIR/images.

USAGE

Simple place the images you wish to rotate in the $BGROTDIR/images directory, run createlist.sh to create the master image list, and run background.sh in the background (perhaps nice'd, for instance /usr/bin/nice -15 background.sh & ), and it should run perfectly. It's not that complicated.

AUTHOR

bgrot is written, used, and maintained by Matthew Fuller ⟨fullermd@over-yonder.net⟩. See the official bgrot homepage at http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/projects/bgrot for updates.